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AI-Generated Code That Passes Tests and Still BreaksCompliance
In a regulated codebase, a passing test suite is not a compliance check. AI writes code that works and violates rules nobody encoded as a test.
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Rule-Breaking Is a Startup Virtue Until the Rule IsLoad-Bearing
Startups reward competent rule-breakers. Regulated industries change the stakes. The real skill is telling soft rules from load-bearing ones.
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Building While Defining theProblem
Product teams experiment. Most engineering teams still wait for the answer. Closing that gap means using code as a discovery tool.
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Hiring Your First Engineers When You Are the EngineeringTeam
Hiring your first engineers as a solo technical leader is nothing like hiring at scale. No panels, no second opinion, every hire defines the culture.
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You Don't Need Microservices Yet: Event-Driven Architecture Inside YourMonolith
Event-driven architecture is a design pattern. Microservices is a deployment topology. You can get decoupling without paying for distribution.
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Most Founding Engineer Job Descriptions Describe the WrongRole
The founding engineer role is three concurrent jobs. Writing code is maybe a third of what determines success. Here is what the rest looks like.
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The Case for a Boring, Repeatable Stack Across MultipleProducts
Running multiple SaaS products on one boring stack keeps you shipping instead of paying the novelty tax on every new project.
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