Leadership

Do trust and accountability go hand in hand? This is something I’ve been chewing on over the weekend. And I don’t know really, but here’s where I’m coming from. One of my side projects at PiForge at the moment is building a system around Agentic Engineering using team lead principles I’ve honed over years, and applying how human teams communicate and organize over the SDLC to agents (i.e. start with a spec, write tickets on a kanban board, grab the next highest priority, work till done, test, PR, release, document). ...

The Problem Hiring has been coming up a lot in some of my social feeds again. It’s a problem I’ve experienced, and seen often from both sides of the table. And most companies don’t get this right. Do I have all the answers? No. But I do have some thoughts. The Trigger The conversation trigger for this post was: “During the developer hiring process, has anyone found an alternative to take-home code tests and live code tests? Companies have stopped using take-home tests as they believe that it’s too easy to cheat using LLMs. About 70% of technical hiring managers that I’ve discussed this with admit that live code (and architecture) tests aren’t working, as too many skilled developers produce poor results due to the artificial time limit.” ...

Clarity for the purpose of this post 😏 code monkey, n. a computer programmer who is not involved in any aspect of conceptual or design work, but simply writes code to specifications given programmer, n. an organism that can turn caffeine into code. Introduction Once upon a time, (many, many moons ago) at the very start of my career, I was just a “code monkey”; an individual contributor to the grand scheme of the digital jungle being fed instructions from primates higher on the food chain and was expected to simply do what I’m told. ...