Pawel Dolega

On the Inversion of Practices

How Software Industry Inverts Every Good Idea

May 27 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

The Triad Coordination Tax

Engineering is collapsing into product. So is design, so is middle management. The coordination tax between them is shrinking.

May 22 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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Play it again, Sam

Cloud didn’t kill the database administrator function. AI isn’t killing software engineering.

May 14 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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The Floor Is Falling

When the software industry enters Extremistan

May 6 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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April 2026

AI subscriptions are on borrowed time

Token prices are falling but your AI bill won't

Apr 26 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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It’s Just Semantics

Agreement on things nobody defined

Apr 15 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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The Moat You Sell Is Disappearing

Software services after software price collapse

Apr 7 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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March 2026

Dario was (mostly) right

...and wrong at the same time

Mar 31 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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AI Slop Is Eating Your Organization From the Inside

Three bullet points would have been fine

Mar 24 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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The joy of reading the code

On simplicity, AI-generated code, and why the aesthetics of a language still matter

Mar 17 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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July 2025

GenAI in Development: Boardroom vs Trenches

On the great divide between internet hype and messy reality

Jul 30, 2025 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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November 2024

The Software Engineer’s Career - Beyond Senior

The mythical post-senior stage of an engineering career and how to prepare for it

Nov 14, 2024 • Pawel Dolega 👊🏾

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