Last week I posted that I had no code, just the work that makes the code possible. The PRD, the prompt spec, the architecture doc, the build brief for Kiro. I went into this week thinking I had every decision pre-made. Then I started building. By Block 2, real testing surfaced a phrase the model was using that no court employee would say. "Strip identifiers" sounds reasonable to a developer. To a
If you’ve ever waited 12 seconds for a git clone of a 5GB monorepo behind a corporate firewall, you know the cost of poor Git server performance: $47k annual productivity loss for a 50-person engineering team, per our 2024 internal benchmark. For 15 years, I’ve tuned Git infrastructure for teams from 4-person startups to 10k+ engineer orgs, and the debate between lightweight Gitea and feature-heav