Quotes

Short notes on engineering, AI, leadership, and judgment.

A growing collection of original thoughts on building products, leading teams, and making better engineering decisions.

8 quotes

  1. Great engineering is not only about building systems. It is about building judgment.

  2. LLM's are pattern matchers, not truth tellers.

  3. Disagree with data. Not volume. Not seniority. Not emotion.

  4. When ego enters a discussion, learning leaves.

  5. Ego writes clever code. Humility writes maintainable systems.

  6. The strongest engineer in a team is rarely the one who proves they are right. It is the one who makes everyone around them better.

  7. There’s nothing like right now! It’s either right or now.

  8. A great RAG pipeline with a mediocre language model will outperform a great language model paired with a mediocre RAG pipeline.