A craft isn’t only about the outputs it produces. The hard parts are not often visible in plainsight.

The “disagree-and-commit” pattern works only when we’ve had a real chance to disagree. Otherwise it becomes a weaponised phrase to silence diverse voices and you risk arriving at poor decisions and conclusions.

In a thriving work environment, we treat our colleagues like the CEO and treat the CEO like a colleague. In this post, I describe three essential behavioural patterns for maintaining an egalitarian relationship with bosses.

People advocating for the Boris Cherny agentic engineering workflow are ignoring the true bottlenecks in software delivery, executives with a counterview and the fundamental reasons why people choose to be software engineers.

The belief that agentic engineering diminishes the importance of deep work ignores diverse perspectives about software development, the AI backlash and the true costs of generative AI.