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A Professional Owns the Whole Outcome
Professionalism in software isn't process, titles, or looking the part. It's owning the whole outcome — the cost, the failure, the 3am page, the wrong call.
How I Prompt Claude as a Staff Engineer (50 Prompts I Actually Use)
Fifty prompts I use to ship production AI features, debug distributed systems, and write docs that don't rot. Code review, debugging, refactoring, system design, and PR-quality writing — with five full examples.
How I'd Hire a Staff Engineer at an AI Startup
The title 'Staff Engineer' means three different things at three different companies. At an AI startup pre-Series-A, only one of those three is what you actually need. The screen, the take-home, the interview loop, and the AI-fluency calibration that's now table stakes.
How I Triage a New Codebase in 90 Minutes
A fractional engineering engagement starts with a codebase you've never seen. You have ninety minutes to form a useful POV before the kickoff call. The seven-step triage I run, the two questions I bring back to the founder, and how AI tooling has accelerated the process.