Productivity
Evidence-first coverage of how work actually gets done at scale — the process, tooling, and behavioural science behind performance.
Our productivity coverage is data-first. We audit the claims that drive the discourse — about remote work, about tools, about the shape of a healthy engineering culture — against public research and observable outcomes. Where the data disagrees with the vibes, we side with the data.
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What Remote Work Actually Did to Software Quality
Both extremes of the remote-versus-office argument were wrong. We pulled four years of public engineering data — incident rates, code review depth, onboarding time — to answer what actually happened to software when the office emptied out.
Vibe Coding's Quiet Revolution: A Year-One Audit
Cursor, Claude Code, Replit Agent and the rest reframed the act of programming inside twelve months. We audited the shipping data — pull request size, review depth, incident rates — to ask whether the productivity gains are real, and what they cost.
Zero-Trust in Production: A 2026 Field Guide
Zero-trust is no longer a buzzword — it is the default security architecture for serious organizations. We map what production deployments actually look like, where they still fail, and what the emerging identity-first models add.
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