Dave fromReading4 published

Writing

Mostly about how much rigour a piece of software has earned before it ships, and what happens to teams and hiring when effort gets cheap. All of it started on LinkedIn.

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    The Value of Being Wrong First

    Putting a rough, wrong first version in front of a group is usually faster than asking everyone to invent the answer. The measure is not how much of it survives — it is how much sooner the group reaches a better one.

    6 min

  2. Rigor should track with consequence

    There is a growing backlash to vibe coding, and a lot of it is fair. The mistake is treating one size as fitting all — effort got cheaper, so the axis that decides how much rigour an effort deserves moved.

    5 min

  3. If you build it…

    There are a lot of ideas inside companies that hang around forever — “we should be able to measure this” — because nobody ever made the thing that would measure it. Building changes the shape of the idea as you go.

    5 min

  4. Rethinking the junior developer in the age of AI

    The most common prediction about AI and software engineering is that junior developers disappear first. I think that is backwards — entry-level roles are about to matter more, not less.

    6 min