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AI wrote the code. Amazon lost 6 million orders. Now they're hiring senior engineers to babysit the AI. March 2026. Amazon's internal AI assistant, Amazon Q, has been proudly marketed as a tool that makes developers "2-3x more productive". Then this happened: March 2: Customers saw incorrect delivery dates. Result…

I found out about a production bug from an alert, not from the person who caused it It was a 2 year ago. The alert fired at 11:40, the fix was ready twenty minutes later, the team moved fast and we closed the incident the same day. Then I looked at the timeline and saw something else: the author knew what he'd brok…

Every team has two org charts. One lives on the wiki. The other shows up only when someone is out sick. This carousel is about the second one. It has two layers. The social layer: who keeps the team together, whose opinion actually carries weight, who's first to say "this won't work". The applied layer: who knows w…

I found out about a production bug from an alert, not from the person who caused it It was a 2 year ago. The alert fired at 11:40, the fix was ready twenty minutes later, the team moved fast and we closed the incident the same day. Then I looked at the timeline and saw something else: the author knew what he'd brok…

The objection “we don’t have time for this” means that the debate over the substance is already over. Last spring, I proposed changing the way we receive tasks from the business team. For three weeks, I heard objections and responded to them the same way, by explaining why this was necessary. Then I noticed that th…

My most effective team was the one I understood the least. After six months, every sprint ended with a positive result. No one raised any issues. Retrospectives lasted fifteen minutes, and people thanked me for saving time. I told myself that I had finally created something that worked. Then one of my senior emplo…