If You Can't Own the PR, Please Don't Open One
A pull request should be opened by the person who can explain the change, assess its risk, and handle the fallout if it goes wrong.
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Thoughts on automation, developer tools, and software engineering.
Generation Is Cheap. Judgment Isn't.
Code generation keeps getting cheaper. But someone still has to read it. Turns out the highest-leverage skill in 2026 might not be writing code - it's deciding whether it should ship.
Automating Myself Out of My Job - Part 2
I'm guilty of every bad commit message sin in the book. So I built a Claude Code skill that writes them better than I ever did.
Automating Myself Out of My Job - Part 1
I was the PR template guy. Now I've automated it. Anyone can get a well-structured PR without thinking about it. The skill I was known for is now... a prompt?