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Swizec Teller
Software engineering lessons from production — almost 20 years of articles by Swizec Teller
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- 58 from 9 Jul 2024 to 17 Oct 2026
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2026 49
- No more tech debt
- React + D3v4 - 2017
- When code is cheap, judgement becomes the job
- Why I'm excited about Jev-like classifiers
- We now auto-approve and merge 15% of PRs
- What B2B SaaS taught me about having kids
- Focus and followthrough are the moat
- Stop burning tokens on code review
- Beware the spaceships
- Agents change the math on big bang migrations
- How to be useful as a software architect
- swizec.com is now on TimberJS, a new React framework
- The one thing every experienced engineer gets wrong
- Theory of constraints, AI, and code review
- Using vibes to rewrite my blog
- You get what you hire
- Code is the easy part, or how we refactored half the business to fix a janky script
- Good software gets out of the way
- User outcomes, workflow design, and biotech software
- Dear [Software Engineering]
- Relentlessly focus on the outcomes
- Engineering levels aren't about skill anymore
- Just fix their PR
- "But if AI does it all, what's *my* job?"
- Using AI at work on This Month in React
- What you need to make an agent
- Quick note on evals and putting AI in your resume
- AI now writes 97% of my code. Here's what I learned
- Just Read the Paper
- Watch people work
- Frustration Driven Development
- Software engineer interviews for the age of AI
- The best engineers just get shit done, sometimes with AI
- Swizec Teller on JS-Craft
- Taming chaos is a learnable skill
- Put scope on your resume
- Probably the realest thing I ever wrote
- Users buy your service, not your code
- GeLLMan amnesia
- Code is cheap, reliability isn't
- The 3 curves that make a scalable business
- In praise of the stacked pull request
- How you migrate is everything
- The future of software engineering is SRE
- A tough job market is the best time to start something
- Place good startup bets
- Small projects, clear scope
- A better way to end-to-end test your webapp
- 2025 Year in Review