Agentic development is fast. An agent can scaffold a feature, write the tests it thinks it needs, and open a pull request before you’ve finished your morning coffee. That speed is real, and agentic development is not going away. Which means the QA analysts who thrive in this brave new world won’t be the ones […] The post Keep Calm…
#the software life
10 posts
23 Jul
13 Jul
Look at how most software projects are laid out and you’ll spot the same quiet assumption baked into the timeline. There’s a block at the front for design. Discovery, research, some sprints of wireframes and mockups. Then a handoff. Then a long stretch labeled “build.” The design block has a clear end to it, and […] The post Design Doesn’t…
My husband runs a pop-up bakery called Molta, and he needed a website. Nothing fancy: who he is, what he bakes, where to find us, etc. For a site this small, the obvious move is to pay for a Squarespace site (or something similar), click a few templates together, and be done in an afternoon. […] The post How to…
30 Jun
I recently started creating a real-time ship combat game where multiple players compete to be the last one standing. The game needs to be playable over LAN, and I would like to create SDKs for developers to write bots to play in addition to human players playing themselves. To achieve this, I first created a […] The post Keep Web…
14 Jun
As a software developer at Atomic Object, one of the expectations (and perks) of the job is taking advantage of professional development opportunities outside of work. Recently, I attended Code Remix, a developer-centric conference in Miami as my annual professional development experience. Through the conference I got to learn about a lot of really interesting […] The post Software Development…
7 Jun
A few weeks ago, I asked my younger brother a very random question: “What would the consequences be of putting higher performance shock absorbers in my car?” Question One He led me down an interesting conversation about the costs, the considerations, the damage it could do to my very simple Mazda CX-30. We chatted about […] The post My Encyclopedia…
1 Jun
A few months ago I watched a sprint board do something I’d never quite seen before. Story cards weren’t stacking up in In Progress. They were stacking up in Ready for Review. On every project I’d ever worked on, the bottleneck was writing the code. Suddenly, on this project, it wasn’t. So how’d we get […] The post When Code…
3 May
Detroit has always been a city of systems. Long before people talked about “platforms” or “digital transformation,” Detroit was solving a harder problem: how to coordinate thousands of moving parts with precision. Assembly lines, supplier networks, logistics routes—these weren’t just operations. They were carefully designed systems, built to be reliable under pressure. If one part […] The post Software Is…
27 Mar
As with most peers I know, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it actually means to be a software developer right now. There seem to be two predominant takes floating around the industry right now about AI and the future of dev work. The first is that software developers are going the way of […] The post AI and…
21 Mar
photo by ajay_suresh In a previous post, I wrote about building my support team early during my second pregnancy. I talked about doulas, night nurses, and the support network I wished I had the first time around. Planning my return to work is another part of that same preparation. Specifically, returning to work while pumping. […] The post Here’s How…