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Atlassian's State of Teams 2026 argues that AI speeds up individual work while making coordination problems harder to ignore.
👋 Hi, I'm Simon.
I'm a senior software engineer at Breuninger, working on after-sales systems and platform architecture. I use this place for notes from work, side projects, and books I keep thinking about.
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Recent writing and small observations.
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Speed is not about rushing. It is about shortening the path to feedback, learning sooner, and keeping work cheap to change.
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To get better at management is to get better at conversations. And sometimes the conversations you need to have are not easy. This book gives a lot of valuable pointers.
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Never Split the Difference is a useful book for engineering management because it treats negotiation as finding the real constraints in a conversation.
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I got tired of hunting for our canteen menu on Confluence every day, so I built a quick MCP server that lets me ask Claude what's for lunch instead.