Because starting is easy and finishing is hard.

Feedback from an expert is how you learn taste. Your code doesn't matter until it's shipped.

Spaceship first, cleanup second. Start with the ending then work your way back to something useful.

I just did a team's worth of work in 5 days. Honestly I am shook to the core of my 20 YoE

Software architects have a weird role: Think about the code _tomorrow_. Today's code is what it is, how do we make it good tomorrow? Without slowing down, losing business, or falling off a cliff.

swizec.com is 20 years old and has gone through many rewrites. Here's the latest

In the last few months every engineer I hired stumbled in exactly the same way: Project management. They learned quickly, but that first big project has become a right of passage.

In the last few months every engineer I hired stumbled in exactly the same way: Project management. They learned quickly, but that first big project has become a rite of passage.

Feedback from an expert is how you learn taste. Your code doesn't matter until it's shipped.

Feedback from an expert is how you learn taste. Your code doesn't matter until it's shipped.

The death of engineering has been greatly exaggerated. You still need to know what you're doing.

The death of engineering has been greatly exaggerated. You still need to know what you're doing.

Hiring engineers is like deciding what kind of system you'll have. This seems obvious but surprised me to see first-hand.

Hiring engineers is like deciding what kind of system you'll have. This seems obvious but surprised me to see first-hand.

This is a classic startup war story: Someone had built a leaky rowboat. It worked! Then we started flying the rowboat as a Cessna. What we needed was an aircraft carrier.

This is a classic startup war story: Someone had built a leaky rowboat. It worked! Then we started flying the rowboat as a Cessna. What we needed was an aircraft carrier.

Explore the art of invisible software and user-centric workflow design with Swizec and Kent C Dodds. Uncover what separates a good engineer from a great one in this insightful dialogue.

Explore the art of invisible software and user-centric workflow design with Swizec and Kent C Dodds. Uncover what separates a good engineer from a great one in this insightful dialogue.

Kent C. Dodds talks with Swizec Teller about product engineering for software that serves real businesses and non-developer users.

Clara Shih talks with Chip Huyen and Swizec Teller about what entry-level software engineering looks like in the AI age.

AI makes it easy to focus inwards and feel impressed with all the churn and motion and output you're producing. But your users don't care.

AI makes it easy to focus inwards and feel impressed with all the churn and motion and output you're producing. But your users don't care.

Traditional engineering levels were about skill progression. I think this has changed. Everyone now is a mini staff engineer.

Traditional engineering levels were about skill progression. I think this has changed. Everyone now is a mini staff engineer.

You know what's better than a code review comment? A fix.

You know what's better than a code review comment? A fix.

On AI, mental load, and delegation

On AI, mental load, and delegation

Mark Erikson and Carl Vitullo talk with Swizec Teller about using AI coding tools at work.

I've been digging into agents for internal tooling and processes. Looking for how to scale without drowning in manual work. Here's what I found