The Engineering Manager

Towards the end of 2025, it seemed that we couldn’t get through a week at Provet without some kind of infrastructure degradation. Outages were piling up, they were hard to diagnose, and customers were losing patience. When a major AWS outage hit in October, our customers didn’t distinguish between Amazon’s problem and ours: months of flakiness had already eroded their trust. So we declared a Code Yellow, the first time we’d done it: a company-wide written announcement explaining the concept, the structure, […]

Read about AI opinion online and you get two camps: those who believe it will fundamentally reshape how software gets built, and those who see it as useful tooling but doubt the transformative claims being made around it. Neither side has a monopoly on insight, and both can point to real evidence (or lack thereof). I’ve watched this split play out everywhere over the last six months: in conversations with other engineering leaders, in how […]