I'm Justin, a senior staff engineer focused on application architecture and code organization at scale. I build modular monoliths. Systems that stay maintainable without distributed complexity. Currently at Auctic.
AI is here. Not in the "coming soon" sense that people have been saying for a decade. It's here in the sense that I use it every day to do work that would have taken me significantly longer just two years ago. I have direct experience with the productivit…
Traditional web apps rot. Every dependency is a ticking clock. You ship something that works. Six months later you're updating packages not because anything broke, but because you got a security warning or a deprecation notice. Now you have to upgrade X,…
DRY is dogma. Don't Repeat Yourself. Nobody remembers learning it, but everyone believes it. See two similar things? Extract them. Share them. Reuse them. This has always been bad advice. AI just makes it indefensible. Shared Code is a Liability The pr…
