Here's what I didn't know, how I used AI to figure it out, and what actually worked.
When my company capped AI usage and made us take training on tokenomics, I got mad for about five minutes. Then I realized the constraint was forcing me to think like an engineer again.
Your teammates who skip AI aren't being careful. They're being replaced. Here's the judgment call that actually matters.
I spent months scared of GitLab Terraform. Here's exactly what broke the fear—and why it wasn't about studying harder.
Not all meetings deserve your full attention. Here's how I figured out which ones do—and why staying present during the ones that matter is what actually looks professional.
You can make things work without knowing why. But that's where you get stuck—and where AI makes it worse.
I switched from full-stack to SRE and stopped leaning on GitHub Copilot constantly. My understanding—and my job security—actually went up.
I shipped a working dashboard in 24 hours. The director's feedback made me realize I was thinking like an IC when I needed to think like a product person.
When you're new to a role and spend most of your week in standups and KTs instead of coding, it feels like you're behind. Here's why you're not.
I asked a teammate for help on a deployment problem. He gave me one sentence. It was the most useful thing that could've happened—and it completely changed how I use AI to learn.
I used ChatGPT every day this week and still got stuck. Here's why AI alone isn't enough when you're learning a new stack from scratch.
I spent an hour prompting AI to fix my drowning SRE inbox. It made things worse. One 10-minute conversation with a teammate who'd actually lived in the role solved it. Here's what I learned about when to use AI and when to ask for help.
My manager gave me a banner management system to build Thursday night. I demoed working code to directors Friday afternoon. Here's exactly how I did it with AI—and why the speed mattered less than what it let me say yes to.
My org restructured me into SRE overnight. PowerPoint decks weren't working. Here's the exact AI prompts I used to go from confused to shipping in one month.