How the Hell Did I Fumble This Interview Question!
Post · Oct 08, 2026
"What happens between typing a URL and seeing the page?" I've shipped web apps for years, and in an interview I still fumbled it.
Closing Tickets Doesn't Make You Senior
Post · Oct 05, 2026
Closing every ticket on a feature doesn't mean the feature works. So whose job is it to find out?
Invert This Binary Tree (For a CRUD Job)
Post · Aug 05, 2026
Six rounds, a weekend take-home, and a hard LeetCode problem, all to hire someone who'll spend their first quarter adding fields to a form. Most interview loops test whether you can pass interview loops, and I'd rather test the job.
AI Didn't Ship Your Bug, Your LGTM Did
Post · Jul 30, 2026
One camp says AI is about to replace engineers. The other ships two hundred generated lines, with tests generated from the same code, on the strength of a Friday LGTM. Both treat the model as the one doing the job, but the model never pressed merge.
AI Without Losing Judgment
Post · Mar 17, 2026
AI made me ship faster, and for a while it also made me approve code I couldn't defend. Speed isn't progress if nobody owns the decisions.