I'm a fullstack web developer with 6 years of experience. Python, Rust, JS, databases, and APIs. That's my day job. I had never touched electronics. A few weeks ago, I decided to build CyberKey. The itch came from something boring at work: my VPN disconnects when I lock my computer, and I have to type a TOTP code several times a day. Unlock my phone, open the authenticator app, read the code, type
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