Your codebase is a commons
Your codebase degrades the same way shared resources do: not from malice, but from missing governance. Elinor Ostrom proved the commons can survive. Her principles map to software teams with uncomfortable precision.
Engineering
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"Good news, I built it in Lovable.": an engineer's guide to surviving that sentence
Business users love Lovable. Engineers tend to panic. A real-world case study of how to wrap an AI builder in guardrails so non-technical teams can move fast without quietly rewriting the systems that give your product its edge.
Python as the new Latin
I used to teach people to code. And looking back, I was teaching students to write it by hand while the tools that write it for them were getting better every single month. So what should a coding classroom actually look like now?
Your codebase is a palimpsest
Every legacy codebase is a palimpsest: layers of decisions written on top of each other, none fully erased. Geoffrey Dhuyvetters argues that what looks like technical debt is often stratigraphy, and you read it before you rewrite it.
Parallelise yourself with Git worktrees
The claude -w flag spins up an isolated git worktree in seconds, so you can keep coding while a long-running task occupies your main session. No conflicts, no context pollution, no waiting.
Is the AI agent frenzy similar to the mobile app hype of the early 2010s?
In 2010, every business convinced itself it needed a mobile app. Fast forward to 2025, and the script is identical, just with AI replacing mobile as the technology everyone insists they can't afford to be without.
The cost of the quick fix
The quick fix isn't cheaper. It's cheaper today. Bram Devries traces how deferred fixes compound into emergencies, and argues that naming the trade-off out loud is the only way to break the cycle.
Your limit will reset at 12pm
Half of today's AI best practices are coping mechanisms for temporary scarcity, not timeless engineering insights. Geoffrey Dhuyvetters traces the arc from SMS bundles to token limits, and argues the price curve only goes one direction.
The SaaS audit bingo card: insights after auditing 180+ SaaS companies
After auditing 180+ SaaS companies, the same patterns keep showing up: a CTO who does everything, documentation nobody updates, a backlog from 2019. Here's what the bingo card looks like, and what AI is changing about it.