Blogs
Short essays with clear takeaways on debugging, system design, and how strong engineers think and work.
The Staff Engineer Readiness Test: What AI Can't Answer For You
A test that reveals how you think—judgment, tradeoffs, and ownership—not the kind you pass with right answers.
Read →When AI Codes For You: What You Still Need to Know
Copilot and ChatGPT can write code. That doesn't mean you can skip the fundamentals. What to understand, what to verify, and when to push back.
Read →The New Interview Reality: Making AI Work For You
AI can write code. So companies are shifting what they test. System design, performance, and making AI work for you—not just writing good code. How to prepare for the interview landscape ahead.
Read →Interview Preparation in 2025: What Actually Works
The landscape has changed. AI, remote interviews, and shifting priorities. How to prepare for tech interviews when the rules keep evolving.
Read →How AI Is Changing Tech Interviews (And What Stays the Same)
Companies are adjusting. Take-home tests, live coding, system design—what's shifting and what you should prepare for.
Read →How to Actually Learn From AI-Generated Code
Accepting AI suggestions is easy. Learning from them is harder. A practical approach to turning Copilot and ChatGPT into real understanding.
Read →Preparing for Behavioral Interviews: Beyond the STAR Method
STAR is a structure. It's not enough. How to tell stories that actually land and show senior judgment.
Read →System Design Without Memorization
You don't need to memorize architectures. You need to understand principles. How to approach any system design question from first principles.
Read →Engineering Career Growth Patterns
How skills compound over time, and what to focus on at each stage.
Read →System Design as Communication
Architecture diagrams and design docs are not documentation. They are communication tools.
Read →Building Debugging Intuition
How experienced engineers develop the instinct to find problems quickly and systematically.
Read →On Cultivating Debugging Sense
Slow down, observe the system, and debug from first principles.
Read →Code Review as Teaching
The best code reviews transfer knowledge, not just catch bugs.
Read →The Art of Reading Production Code
How to understand large codebases, build mental models, and navigate unfamiliar systems.
Read →The Philosophy of Technical Debt
When to take on debt, when to pay it down, and how to think strategically about code quality.
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