Subash Adhikari

CTO at MemoriesLabs. I grow engineering teams and leaders across Melbourne and Kathmandu.

MemoriesLabs builds Memories, a funeral planning and memorialization platform. I also help Decimal Tech grow its engineering teams in Kathmandu.

I write here about engineering and AI, and about exploring consciousness and meditation. More on the about page.

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Who will read this code next, and what will they need to know first?

Engineering

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Three pieces on engineering once code is cheap to produce.

  1. Beyond Clean Code Dogma - Why Your Engineering Team Should Obsess Over the Delivery Trinity Instead

    Obsessing over clean code dogma can actually slow your team down. Here's what to focus on instead.

  2. Code Review in the Age of AI-Generated PRs

    We now generate code faster than we can reliably review it. Practical principles for reviewing AI-generated pull requests without slowing your team down.

  3. From keyboard to thought: what happens to us when the interface disappears?

    We got hooked on social media. AI might hook us even deeper, by doing things for us rather than showing us things. So what happens to human consciousness when the line between us and the machine starts to blur?

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  1. AGENTS.md as onboarding for a teammate who forgets everything

    Treat AGENTS.md as onboarding for coding agents. Keep commands, conventions and project decisions current so each new session starts with useful context.

  2. How I Run a Team of Bots

    I stopped treating AI as one chat window and started treating it like a small team, with lanes, handoffs and a review gate. Here's how that works day to day, and what still needs me.

  3. If you trap the customer, they'll still leave

    Storyblok billed us thousands in breach fees. We moved our sites off it in hours. AI made exit cheap. Lock-in is a worse bet than looking after customers.

  4. From keyboard to thought: what happens to us when the interface disappears?

    We got hooked on social media. AI might hook us even deeper, by doing things for us rather than showing us things. So what happens to human consciousness when the line between us and the machine starts to blur?

  5. Code Review in the Age of AI-Generated PRs

    We now generate code faster than we can reliably review it. Practical principles for reviewing AI-generated pull requests without slowing your team down.

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