Tag: opinion

All the articles with the tag "opinion".

• Evals Are the New Unit Tests (And You're Not Writing Them)

  13 Feb, 2024

  Shipping an LLM feature with no evals is shipping with no tests, and almost everyone is doing it. A small, hand-written harness you run on every change, plus the honest limits of grading with another model.

• Five Hundred Engineers, Four Countries, and Conway's Law

  12 Dec, 2023

  Across four countries and a few hundred engineers, the system came to look exactly like the org chart. After years of fighting that, I started using it on purpose.

• Platform Engineering: Paving Roads vs Building Cages

  18 Jul, 2023

  An internal ML platform that dozens of teams actually used, and the one test that told me whether I was paving a road or building a cage around it.

• FinOps Is Just Capacity Planning With a Better Hat

  14 Feb, 2023

  Owning a large cloud P&L taught me that cost is an engineering-culture problem, not a dashboard. Where the tooling earns its keep and where it is theater.