Engineering Power and Responsibility
Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 8
Engineering decisions change character when they enter an organization.
On a whiteboard, an architecture can be evaluated through constraints, tradeoffs,
What AI Acceleration Makes Us Lose
Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 7
I have started to notice a particular kind of discomfort in engineering work.
The output is arriving faster. Code that
Do Not Validate New Technology Inside Product Systems
Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 6
Publish date: 2026-07-23
"We can use this product project to validate the new technology" is one
Innovation Is a Value Judgment
Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 5
Publish date: 2026-07-17
Web: https://shikelabs.com/articles/innovation-is-a-value-judgment
Innovation is one of the
Systems Fail When They Solve the Wrong Problem
Series: Engineering Judgment, Part 4
Publish date: 2026-07-10
Many engineering projects are not defeated by problems the team cannot solve.
They are defeated