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Agentic Monitoring

Agents are structurally well suited to monitoring production systems. »

This place is not a place of honor

Internal platform engineering now really demands a security mindset. »

Thoughts on Marginal Token Spend

Notes on token spend and the developing shape of SWE spending. »

Tokenmaxxing is Goodharting

Token leaderboards make token consumption a bad metric. »

Feature Flagging at Databricks

Reflections on building SAFE, Databricks’ internal feature flagging platform. »

2025 in Review

2025 in review. »

On Not Running While Injured

Running injuries and routines. »

Software Engineering in 2026

Shifting bottlenecks after a year of dramatic improvement in the quality of AI-generated code. »

Watches

Quartz, mechanical, and otherwise. »

Notes from Early Flight Training

Mnemonics, enjoying being a beginner, and the Pacific Northwest from the sky. »

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