Hi, welcome!
I'm EnriqueMark, a software engineer and a writer.
I think in writing. It does for me what scratch paper does for arithmetic: it is the cache my thinking cannot work without. Silent reflection always leaves me feeling that something is missing. Setting a thing down is the step that matters. It lifts an idea out of my own small working memory and gives the good ones room to grow.
Selected Writing
58 in all- 01
Hiring in the AI era, and the change in paradigm
2026-08There's one claim I think is right, that hiring, the whole approach and the whole system, is going to change over time, especially now in the AI era. Because coding by hand the old way pays less and less...
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What Bun's full rewrite taught me
2026-08I've mentioned process-based quality control before, and you can see something close to it in How Anthropic runs large-scale code migrations with Claude Code. What they put at the center of the whole rewrite is the process...
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On reading code
2026-08Let me say something about my own view on whether you actually have to read the code. For me, I take the position of don't read code line by line, which I already talked about in Process-based quality control...