Matt Blodgett

Software is about people, not code.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Copilot Is Outsourcing 2.0

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Decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. (Or, in this context, remain employed.) - Will Larson, " Care...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Engineering-led Research Tickets

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One of my optimistic beliefs about software engineers is that we're full of good ideas about how things around us could be improved. We...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Software Engineer Career Levels at Companies You've Heard Of

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I found a site called Progression.fyi that curates a list of "career frameworks," or in other words, the level-progression system...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Heisenberg Effect in Software

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One of the greatest services that software engineers provide is that we help people understand their own thought processes. We're transc...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Are You a Stable or Volatile?

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I've written before on this blog about the different personality traits of software engineers, and how different traits balance each ot...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Who Writes the Backlog?

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The Product Owner has the final say in backlog prioritization. But who writes the backlog? Is it always the product owner? My experience ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Legacy Systems Age in Reverse

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I feel like every job I've ever had in software there has been some old legacy system hanging around that everyone denigrated and perenn...
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