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Nick Miller
Director of Engineering. Writing about systems design, team scaling, developer experience, and the messy reality of building software at scale.
All opinions here are my own and do not represent the views of any current or former employer.
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- 001 What Ferrari Could Learn From RolexFerrari just unveiled the all-electric Luce. The Swiss watch industry lived through this exact crisis fifty years ago, and the lesson is clear: when your metric gets commoditized, don't compete harder on it.strategy
- 002 The Case for the Extremely Simple Interview QuestionAfter ~100 interview panels, I've come to believe a dead-simple coding question surfaces more signal than algorithms or system design. Here's why.leadership
- 003 You Don't Have an AI Optimization Problem, You (Still) Have a Developer Experience ProblemEvery 'AI readiness' conversation I have turns out to be a developer experience conversation. The bottlenecks haven't changed — just who's blocked on them.leadership devops architecture
- 004 Thoughts on testing LLM-based systemsMost teams test the pipes but not the water. A framing for separating deterministic and non-deterministic testing when AI outputs actually matter.architecture leadership
- 005 My First Foray Into Game DevelopmentMy son wanted to make a game. I spent years at PlayStation but never built one. Here's what happened when we finally sat down with Claude Code and tried.architecture
- 006 PR Throughput: An Imperfect Metric That Still Tells You SomethingMeasuring knowledge work is nearly impossible, but PR throughput — despite its flaws — remains one of the most useful diagnostics for engineering health.leadership