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I have been doing my goal-setting, KPIs, and feedback assessments through LLMs. The hardest part was designing the scoring mechanism. When HackerRank open-sourced their Hiring Agent, I wanted to understand how they had solved the same problem and what biases their rubric encod...
Suppose there are two engineers. One (EA) makes $200K; the other (EB) makes $50K. EA was a strong performer and EB solidly met expectations. Now the CEO wants to update the company’s performance metrics, so he adds salary as a factor in how engineers are evaluated. What do y...
I started my career in the late 2010s, and I have had a front-row seat to the growth of the industry that has given me everything: software engineering. Looking back over the last decade, I have mixed feelings about some of the calls I made. And I am seeing the same patterns ...
The 80/20 of LLM Costs Here is how I have come to think about LLMs after 8+ months of heavy agentic coding (200K+ lines, 30 PRs a month). If you are already strong in your tooling, a large chunk of the agentic advantage disappears. The model moves away from compensating for g...
Note: This post is a work in progress and will be updated over time. Software Engineering as we see it today is slowly transforming itself towards a more Agentic workflow. This is not new; there was a time where software was packaged and manually SCP’d into individual ser...