Engineering Excellence in the AI Era: ROI, Communication Cadence, and Fighting Cognitive Biases

AI Amplifies the ROI of Good Engineering Practices

TLDR: AI simultaneously reduces the effort required for good engineering practices (testing, documentation, code quality) while increasing their benefits, creating a compounding ROI that makes technical excellence more valuable than ever.

Good engineering, communication cadence, and cognitive biases 💡

Communication Cadence: The Update Stack Framework

TLDR: Just as teams have tech stacks, they need "update stacks"—structured communication cadences that match information type to format: async messages for blockers, weekly reports for status, biweekly 1:1s for growth and strategy.

TLDR: Daniel Kahneman's research shows cognitive biases (anchoring, availability heuristic, confirmation bias) can't be fought in the moment—only through upfront process design and systematic decision-making frameworks that counteract our natural shortcuts.