Responsibility Is Taken Before It Is Given
To get promoted as a software engineer in Big Tech, you generally need to show “ownership” of a product or area.
Lalit Maganti
In-depth articles on software engineering in Big Tech, software performance, and open source, and how AI is reshaping all three. New post every week.
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest posts
Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn’t.
AI makes devtools cheap to customize, but personalized forks still demand ongoing attention and ownership.
GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
Why GitHub needs a replacement and where existing alternatives fall short
How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer
How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.
The git history command deserves more attention
fixup, reword and split old commits without the scary rebase -i
From newsletter to only the best articles
Separating the work I'm proudest of from everything else
syntaqlite 0.6: SQLite dot commands and pyodide
Plus "TIL: Iroh: peer-to-peer networking for app developers"
17 bugs in 10 weeks from AI security scanning
Plus "Which country voted the best at Eurovision?"
Don't answer the first question
Why the confusion behind a weird question is more useful than the question itself
Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
How AI made building the SQLite devtools I've craved for 8 years possible