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Deep technical writing on infrastructure, architecture, process, and culture.
What Do Future Engineers Look Like?
Reshaping our organization around agentic software production sent us back to our hiring rubric early, and technical ability lost its standalone score. Here are the six criteria we landed on, and the thinking behind each.
I’m a designer and today I shipped code to prod
I shipped code to production as a designer. Some unexpected things happened when I coded with Claude and I learned why scope creep is so prevalent. In the end it made me think about new design process ideas I want to try implementing.
How we built an internal sandbox to safely host non-engineers' AI projects in a day
AI has enabled all parts of our company to build and deploy code, which is amazing. Keeping those projects from exposing company and customer data in that new world is complicated, so we built a secure-by-default sandbox for them.
Welcome to the Lab
The AI engineering discourse is split between hype and dismissal. We're building with LLMs in production at an early-stage company — this is where we write honestly about what we find.