Confession: I’m not a walking dictionary. If you test me on textbook IT definitions, I might fail. After transitioning through Law and Banking into Tech, I’ve realized that terminology is often just a high-tech "smoke screen" for professional ego. But for many of us, the problem is deeper: it's about the language of logic itself. In my first year of Law school, I spent nights memorizing the "Theor
Part 2 of 5 in The New Engineering Contract - what it means to lead engineers when AI is doing more of the coding. Stripe never skipped the boring stuff. They ship 1,300 AI PRs a week. Amazon skipped it. Their storefront went down for six hours. Kent Beck wrote the answer in Extreme Programming Explained in 1999. We read it. Then chose velocity anyway. A friend of mine leads engineering at a funde