High-Impact Engineering
Roman Nikolaev, Benedikt KantusHow product & engineering orgs work, and break, in their first ~30 people.
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The bottleneck resolves itself
An engineer has an idea for an alternative data visualization. During a meeting, he prompts Claude a few times and shows the result to the team.
It looks polished. It works, and it seems useful.
But nobody asked for it. There is no user p...
What actually changes as you get more senior?
The more senior you are, the more open-ended the problems you face.
When you are a junior engineer, you have a task, and someone helps you solve it.
When you are mid-level, you have a task, and you solve it mostly without help.
When you...
Your team is not your first team
The most destructive thing that can happen in your organization is an internal war. I have seen multiple times how internal rivalry or disrespect between teams brought an organization to its knees. A smaller organization, such as a startup,...
The next bottleneck is not code review.
What happens when writing code becomes cheaper?
We hit the next bottleneck. And for us, it is not code review.
It is change validation.
How do we keep the quality bar when output doubles or triples? It is something I have spent the last...
Is hiring juniors a bad idea in 2026?
For small teams and organizations, every hire is critical. If you have ten people in your engineering team, each of them is critical to the team’s success. Hiring juniors before AI was justified by the need to handle simpler tasks, and it a...
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