The Sausage Factory and the Engineering Hourglass
Being a senior software engineer comes with many challenges, but one of the main ones is probably the conflict between spending energy on high level discussions and hands-on engineering. I already…
Field Notes · Dispatches
Short-form. Weekly.
Technical-adjacent. The lab's notebook — what is in front of us this week, briefly.
Field record · FN-DP-2024-02-001
Ground game and timing: the secret to Uber's success (according to me)
Ground game and timing: the secret to Uber's success (according to me)
Read the dispatchField record · FN-DP-2024-01-001
Life as a Senior Engineer
I recently met up with a couple of fellow engineers, and in passing I mentioned that I always tried to do some amount of coding every day, even when I was a distinguished engineer at Uber . For…
Read the dispatchDispatches are short, current notes that can publish quickly without becoming product documentation.
Dispatches
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Studio
Author expert systems from the work itself, with schemas, tools, and review states visible from the first draft.
- 02
Workblocks
Package tasks, integrations, prompts, policies, and human checkpoints into one governed operating artifact.
- 03
Flow
Run work with typed inputs, observable state, approvals, and a durable audit trail instead of loose chat transcripts.
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Library
Reuse what has already worked across clients, teams, and contexts without losing the operational record.