Alex Kessinger

@voidfiles

code@Stripe after work Water Polo Coach. Systems, People, Outcomes. Views are my own. co-host podcast.staffeng.com

Salt Lake City, UT

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Alex Kessinger
@voidfiles
Jan 21
Happy to report that myself and @davidnoelromas are rebooting the Staff Eng podcast. podcast.staffeng.com/posts/were-bac… This next season will focus on AI. These tools promise 10-100X productivity gains, but many engineers (and other practitioners) don't know how to learn them—especially
podcast.staffeng.com
We're Back
After 3 years, we’re coming out of retirement, because something fundamental broke open in the last few months—something that changes everything about …
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Alex Kessinger
@voidfiles
Jul 25
New episode: @JWondrusch from Block joins me and @davidnoelromas to talk about what actually changes when agents get good enough to do the work. The 60-service monorepo migration that convinced him the ceiling moved, and why "raising ambition" is now a real coaching conversation.
Jonathan Wondrusch (Block): Raising Ambition in the Singularity
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Alex Kessinger
@voidfiles
May 30
You're all 100x engineers...now what? > frontier models might make you a 10x engineer but they also give your org all the problems of a company 10x bigger. The security debt, the audit trails, the blast radius. You move faster and inherit more. Checkout the Latest Staff Eng
Alex Kessinger
@voidfiles
Apr 14
Formal verification might allow LLMs to write safer code, but it's not 100%. From "Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug." Overall the code base was well crafted, but: > The two bugs that were found both sat outside the boundary of what the proofs cover.
Alex Kessinger
@voidfiles
Apr 14
From the skill: > The most important section is Drafted vs Sent. Every time you rewrite an AI draft before sending, save both versions. The gap is the voice. Smart. It's a mini self improvement loop. github.com/getlago/inside…
swyx
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Apr 13
If you're looking to improve your writing game, Anh is one of the most consistent heavy hitters I know in devtools HN and she literally just open sourced her writing Skills template for you to use below!
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