QA Engineering Won the War: Why AI Is Shifting Engineering From Building to Validation

As AI makes code cheaper to generate, the real leverage in software engineering is moving toward validation, judgment, guardrails, and domain knowledge.

Apr 29 • Alvaro Lorente

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Most Software Engineering “-ilities” Are Becoming Irrelevant in the Age of AI

Maintainability, reusability, and readability were never universal principles. They were responses to a world where writing software was expensive. As…

Apr 16 • Alvaro Lorente

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Clean Architecture Is Dying: How AI Is Killing Essential Software Patterns

SOLID, DDD, and layered architectures were built for a world where change was expensive. That world no longer exists.

Apr 8 • Alvaro Lorente

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Engineering After AI: 3 Ways to Fix the Real Bottlenecks in Modern Teams

When execution becomes cheap, the advantage shifts to learning faster, reducing friction, and controlling complexity. A new operating model for…

Apr 1 • Alvaro Lorente

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March 2026

The Real Bottleneck in Engineering: Why AI Didn’t Fix What Slows Teams Down

AI made execution faster, but decision-making, alignment, and validation are still limiting performance. Here’s where engineering teams actually lose…

Mar 25 • Alvaro Lorente

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The Illusion of Speed: Why AI Is Making Teams Faster—but Not Better

We’re shipping more code than ever, yet delivery performance and quality remain flat. The real bottleneck hasn’t disappeared—it has moved.

Mar 18 • Alvaro Lorente

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The Moment Process Starts Eating Your Day

As companies scale, governance expands and strategic capacity shrinks. Learn how process overload erodes engineering leadership effectiveness—and how to…

Mar 4 • Alvaro Lorente

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February 2026

When You Realize Engineering Is Everyone’s Dependency

The structural coordination burden of modern engineering leadership

Feb 25 • Alvaro Lorente

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I Couldn’t Write While I Was Paying the Tax

A year of silence, scaling pressure, and why this newsletter is now called The Engineering Tax.

Feb 22 • Alvaro Lorente

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May 2025

Are We Providing Feedback or Something Else?

Explore whether we're truly providing feedback when we claim to, or we are just sharing our own bias. Learn from definitions, prioritizing feelings and…

May 13, 2025 • Alvaro Lorente

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Transforming Systems Operations Teams into a Unified Platform Team

Discover how to revolutionize your organization's systems operations by transitioning from traditional, siloed teams to a unified platform team. This…

May 8, 2025 • Alvaro Lorente

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April 2025

The Role of Transparency in Leadership

Discover why transparency is a cornerstone of effective leadership and how it contributes to a healthy chain of command. Learn how being open and honest…

Apr 28, 2025 • Alvaro Lorente

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