Activity Log - 2025-12-12

Readings

• “If I can cut a 20 person team that I manage down to 4 or 5 highly accountable and AI empowered senior engineers that report directly to me, then I don’t even need a project manager. I might not even need business analysts” https://obie.medium.com/what-happens-when-the-coding-becomes-the-least-interesting-part-of-the-work-ab10c213c660
• S. Willison on HTML tools https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/?ck_subscriber_id=887778336
• Claude mem to initialize context / reference recent conversations https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem

Learnings

• Refactoring strategy: Avoid ‘Big Bang’ replacements; favor Iterative Refactoring (Structure -> Visuals) to prevent drift and confusion.
• E2E Testing Architecture: Use Strict Page Object Model and abstract Intent (‘selectProperty’) over Implementation (‘click(“.pill”)’) to protect against UI changes.
• Component Architecture: Use Data-Driven UI (Blueprints/Engines) over manual JSX scripting to ensure consistency and reduce code volume.