7 articles on engineering leadership.
What the Model Context Protocol actually is, why it turns an N×M integration problem into N+M, and the question to ask a vendor that 'we support MCP' does not answer.
A randomised controlled trial found experienced developers were 19% slower with AI — while estimating they were 20% faster. The detail everyone skips explains why.
Support, product, engineering and finance describe one fact in four vocabularies with no shared object connecting them. Every handoff is a translation, and 64% of defects originate there.
Developers spend 58% to 70% of their time understanding code, not writing it. The industry spent three years optimising the smaller half — and increased the load on the constraint.
Four months to productivity on a senior hire is roughly $60,000 spent on an activity nobody has defined or measured. It is not a hiring problem — it measures what understanding your system costs.
Handover documents fail for a reason that is not laziness: the departing person does not know what they know. Expertise is retrieved by situation, not enumerated on request.
The standard slide — 90% adoption, 40% self-reported productivity, annualised to millions — will not survive a numerate board member. Here is an answer that does.
