software engineering leader
Chase Pierce
- currently
- I lead software engineering orgs, own architecture and delivery, and still write code. The architecture needs to be right to enable building the right products. Without it, you're fighting the system instead of building on it. Problem clarity tells you what to build. Then the architecture circles back to provide the right solution, and when requirements change, that should be a configuration change, not a bug.
- previously
- Writing code since I was 11. Over 20 years across gaming, social media, fintech, e-commerce, proptech, hosting, travel, sports tech, and more. The problems are universal. The fun part is solving them.
- otherwise
- Open sorcerer. Perpetually online. Obsessed with technology, hooked on shipping. Your favorite internet junkie with a love of all things digital and bacon-based.
tools
all toolswhoami
See how you appear on the internet. IP, location, browser, device, and more.
JWT Debugger
Decode, encode, and verify JSON Web Tokens entirely in your browser.
Text Format Converter
Convert between JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, TOON, CSV, ENV, and query strings.
UUID / ULID Generator
Generate, validate, and inspect UUIDs (v1, v4, v7) and ULIDs.
writing
all posts- new15 min
We've Been "Vibe Coding" This Whole Time
Every promotion has moved you further from the code. Now every engineer gets a small org chart of their own.
- 10 min
We Called It Progress
We spent decades building software that made other people's jobs cheaper. Now I'm on the job market, watching it happen to us.
- 10 min
Control Isn't Success
I turned a dying CRM rebuild into a real platform and shipped a year early. Then I started fixing the problem statements myself, which broke everything else.
- 7 min
The Thinking Tax
I fixed a bug in ten minutes that could've cost me hours, and felt nothing. The understanding never showed up. On what goes missing when the tool thinks first.
- 8 min
Growing Together in the Age of LLMs
AI made the first version easy. Everything after that (the scaling, the edge cases, the maintenance) still takes real engineering. On growing alongside LLMs.
- 5 min
The Evolution of Software Engineering in the Age of AI
With AI-assisted coding, software engineers are becoming product engineers and architects, leaning into system design, collaboration, and iteration with LLMs.
- 5 min
GitHub Actions & Secret Inputs
An exploration and a working solution for passing secret input values into GitHub Actions manual, self-service workflows, without leaking them in the logs.
- 1 min
Hello, world, again!
We're back. Round and round we go. Why I keep rebuilding this blog, why I keep abandoning it, and why this time I'm betting I'll actually stick with writing.