Stuck at Parallel

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Someone at work drew this maturity curve on a whiteboard a few months back: gated, assisted, parallel, supervised, AI-native. Cute framing. I laughed at “AI-native” because it sounded like a LinkedIn post. Then I actually looked at where I sit on it and stopped laughing.

Parallel. Third box from the left. I’ve been sitting there since maybe June.

What Parallel actually feels like
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Nobody warns you that “parallel” mostly means more browser tabs. Right now I’ve got six worktrees open — feat/rate-limit, fix/flaky-webhook-test, four others I’d have to alt-tab to name — each running its own agent, each waiting on me for something. My job title didn’t change but the job did. I used to produce the diff. Now I referee five diffs I didn’t write and one I’m too tired to remember starting.

Boring Tech Wins

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Every year a new framework launches with the promise of solving the fundamental problems of software development. Every year engineers adopt it with enthusiasm. Every year the same problems resurface, just in a new form.

The appeal of new
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New technology is exciting because it represents possibility. Before you’ve built anything real with a new tool, you can project onto it all the things you wish your current stack could do. The ergonomics feel better because you haven’t hit the edges yet.

Engineering on Quy Thai Quang

Stuck at Parallel

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Boring Tech Wins

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What Parallel actually feels like
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The appeal of new
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