// NOTES FROM THE WORKSHOP
Long-held thoughts, finally on paper.
About a specific piece in wood, a specific project in software, sometimes both. The cadence is uneven. I write when I have something to say, not on a schedule.
// 2026.05.20
The shape of an engineering team
Fred Brooks did the arithmetic on team size in 1975, and endorsed a smaller shape almost no one could staff. Fifty years on, agentic tools may finally make it buildable.