Kenny Mroz
Technical Architect · DePaul Lecturer · Chicago
I'm an engineer who thinks like an architect and teaches on the side. I write about building and scaling systems, navigating the jump from engineer to architect, life in the classroom, and figuring out where AI fits into all of it.
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- I Miss Building
I keep leaving standups right when the problem gets interesting, and I miss staying.
- Use the AI. Then Explain It to Me.
I tell my database students I do not care if they use AI. What I care about is whether they understand what it gives them back.
- If You Didn't Read It, Why Should I?
An AI-generated ADR landed in my review queue recently. The problem was not the AI. It was that nobody had read it before I did.
- The Class Works. Now I Have to Sell It.
A few weeks into teaching the containers course I built, students are asking why there aren't more classes like it. This week I get to make that case myself.
- I Built the Class. Tomorrow I Find Out If It Works.
Tomorrow I teach a course I designed myself for the first time. I built it because of what I saw as a student at DePaul in 2017, sitting in lectures that were years behind the job I already had.