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I keep leaving standups right when the problem gets interesting, and I miss staying.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I started working with a coach a few months ago. He asked where I want to be in five years, and I have been sitting with my own answer ever since.

Five months into an architect role. The surprise was not the meetings. It was how long it takes to get anything into a developer's hands.

I co-presented at the Grainger Tech Conference on Event-Driven Ansible and Kubernetes. The demo was not the point. The point was that most developers have Ansible filed under the wrong category.

Everyone in my rotational program wanted the product engineering team. I chose the on-call team. Here is why, and what it gave me.

Why I started this blog, what I think about, and what I keep learning.