# engineering productivity (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover engineering productivity. Page: Feed: --- ## [Code Doctrine: The Reusable Version of My AI Coding Constitution](https://kamil.chm.ski/code-doctrine-the-reusable-version-of-my-ai-coding-constitution) _2026-05-23 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ Announcing Code Doctrine: the reusable public version of my AI coding constitution, refined through real use and designed for customization, installation, and sharing across agent environments. ## [Your AI Coding Agents Need a Constitution](https://kamil.chm.ski/your-ai-coding-agents-need-a-constitution) _2026-04-21 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ In the era of LLM-written code, your engineering rules matter more than ever. Why every solo developer and team should define a coding constitution for their AI agents—and the one I use myself. ## [Your Deployment Pipeline Should Not Depend on a Prompt](https://kamil.chm.ski/deployment-pipeline-should-not-depend-on-a-prompt) _2026-04-13 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ LLMs are useful for authoring deployment checks. Making a prompt part of the deployment path is a reliability, auditability, and cost mistake. ## [Does AI make engineers more productive? It’s complicated.](https://www.thrownewexception.com/does-ai-make-engineers-more-productive-its-complicated/) _2025-12-23 · Bruno Costa · thrownewexception_ My honest take on using AI for coding. Exploring productivity gains, cognitive offloading risks, and responsible LLM use ## [The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work](https://justoffbyone.com/posts/math-of-why-you-cant-focus-at-work/) _2025-11-24 · Off by One_ Interruptions, recovery time, and task size: three numbers that determine if you'll get real work done. Interactive visualizations show the math behind bad days. ## [Take-Home Exercises](https://justoffbyone.com/posts/take-home-exercises/) _2025-10-31 · Off by One_ How to design effective take-home exercises that assess both ability and interest, with practical guidelines on scope, payment, and AI-assisted work ## [Avoiding the Trailing Slash Tax on Github Pages and Astro](https://justoffbyone.com/posts/trailing-slash-tax/) _2025-10-28 · Off by One_ A deep dive into how GitHub Pages handles trailing slashes, the hidden redirect cost, and why every millisecond matters for user experience ## [Interactive Hiring Pipeline Calculator](https://justoffbyone.com/posts/interactive-hiring-pipeline-calculator/) _2025-10-26 · Off by One_ Calculate how many candidates you need to reach out to make one hire based on your conversion rates. ## [Running 1:1s for Engineers](https://justoffbyone.com/posts/how-to-run-11s/) _2025-10-21 · Off by One_ A practical, repeatable framework for running weekly engineering 1:1s using the People, Product, Process structure—with exact scripts, Notion setup, and tips for making them actually useful. ## [Measuring Engineering Productivity](https://justoffbyone.com/posts/measuring-engineering-productivity/) _2025-10-17 · Off by One_ A lightweight system for measuring engineering productivity that puts the overhead on managers, not engineers—using changelogs, standups, and visibility over surveillance ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OlIDhjYCwN6t) _2025-10-16 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Using Your GitHub Copilot Subscription Inside GitHub Actions](https://kamil.chm.ski/github-copilot-actions-quickstart) _2025-09-25 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ Use the Copilot subscription you already pay for directly inside a GitHub Action. No extra services, gateways, or infra. A single inline call to the chat endpoint so lightweight developer tasks run in CI—consistent, repeatable, not tied to a laptop. ## [Let It Crash — Turning Failure into Your Most Reliable Signal](https://kamil.chm.ski/let-it-crash-lesson) _2025-08-04 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ Thirteen failed releases reminded me that embracing errors beats prediction. Discover how the Erlang "let it crash" mindset rescued my CI/CD pipeline and the one-line Bash fix that did it. ## [Paying the SOC2 Screenshot Tax](https://justoffbyone.com/posts/paying-the-soc2-screenshot-tax/) _2025-07-31 · Off by One_ How Vanta turned SOC2 compliance into a $4B business and why startups are paying the screenshot tax instead of building products ## [Bridging Rust and TypeScript with zod\_gen – End-to-End Type Safety at Cimatic](https://kamil.chm.ski/bridging-rust-and-typescript-with-zod_gen) _2025-07-25 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ Solving type drift between Rust backends and TypeScript frontends with automatic code generation. Two open-source crates that generate Zod schemas and TypeScript types directly from Rust structs. ## [Vibe Coding is Cheap, Show Me The Demo: How I Code with Playwright UI as My Co-Pilot](https://kamil.chm.ski/vibe-coding-cheap-show-me-demo) _2025-07-17 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ In the era of AI-generated code, vibe coding has made writing code effortless but proving it works crucial. Learn Show Me The Demo Development - a methodology that treats demos as specifications using Playwright UI for real-time feedback. ## [Availability math: Why DHH's microservices calculation is incomplete](https://www.thrownewexception.com/availability-math-why-dhhs-microservices-calculation-is-incomplete/) _2025-07-16 · Bruno Costa · thrownewexception_ DHH claims 10 microservices with 99.9% uptime = 99.0% system availability. Why this oversimplifies distributed systems + correct calculation. ## [AI Sparks a Dev Tool Spending Spree! Are We Entering a New Golden Era?](https://kamil.chm.ski/ai-dev-tools-golden-era) _2025-06-10 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ AI has changed the game. I'm happily paying for dev tools that make me faster. Is this the dawn of a new golden era for dev tools? ## [How AI + Markdown Can Transform Project Management](https://kamil.chm.ski/project-management-ai) _2025-05-28 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ I ditched complex SaaS planning tools for plain markdown files managed in SilverBullet. Here's why it was a game-changer for my workflow. ## [Introducing Cimatic: A Solo Founder's Journey to Faster CI/CD](https://kamil.chm.ski/introducing-cimatic) _2025-05-22 · Kamil Chmielewski · Chm.ski Labs Blog - Platform Engineering & Indie Hacking_ A year ago, I left my job to be a full-time parent. In my spare time, I built Cimatic, a tool to optimize CI/CD pipelines. Here's the story. ## [Daily plans, scheduled by AI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/d3POE40rwpLq) _2025-05-21 · **Sponsored**_ AI-made daily plans that schedule tasks and protect focus time. ## [They hate one-on-ones…](https://www.thrownewexception.com/they-hate-one-on-ones/) _2024-11-25 · Bruno Costa · thrownewexception_ Famous leaders like Aditya Agarwal and DHH have openly expressed their dislike for one-on-ones, calling them unnecessary. But is this always the case?