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A one-week feature took two months, mostly spent keeping three systems in sync

A one-week feature took two months, mostly spent keeping three systems in sync

A one-week feature took two months, mostly spent keeping three systems in sync

I built a free API that measures the cost of software complexity

I'm Writing a Book: The Engineering Tax

I'm Writing a Book: The Engineering Tax

I built a free API that measures the cost of software complexity

I built a free API that measures the cost of software complexity

My first SaaS didn’t validate, here is what I learned

Walmart’s AI checkout failure: Why more complexity usually means less profit

How cutting "coordination overhead" tripled my shipping speed

Your shared database is a failure cascade waiting to take place

I just dumped Google Antigravity

Coupling is a hidden tax on your growth

I coupled 2 MongoDB databases to release faster and it went wrong

Why the AI price spike is actually a blessing for founders

How I stopped waiting on other teams (and tripled my shipping speed)

Why your "cheap" VC money is actually a high-interest tax on your engineering team

Why VC money is a sedative (and how it's killing your ship-speed)

I traded system integrity for a faster release deadline, and it still haunts me.