Sunil Pai Explains the Senior Engineer Death Spiral

Cloudflare's Sunil Pai (threepointone) published an essay on the 'senior engineer death spiral,' a recurring failure pattern where senior engineers take on big tasks and spiral into doing a month of work in a week, unnoticed.

2026-09-20 ~ 2026-09-20 · 2 related posts

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