bigfish2026

Places like airports would be an absolute disaster. I’ve done so much dev work sitting in one and it would be easy enough to put a fake WiFi access point in a lounge.

Inside a big company for sure. Less so at a startup.

I’m planning on publishing more as I find real strategies. But honestly I didn’t want to be disingenuous and include anything I have not found to help. I’m really still dealing with these problems myself.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent shift toward "Agentic Engineering" and the viral metrics being shared by leadership at firms like YC. We’re seeing dashboards boasting 30k+ lines of code generated per day, which feels like a total regression to the 1980s "Lines of Code" productivity trap. I wanted to write a piece that explores why this volume is actually a systemic risk to feedback loops and maintenance, rather than a win for velocity. I’ve been seeing these kind of metrics adopted at my own job and heard from friends it’s happening at theirs too.