# Brian Seitel's Blog

> Thoughts on engineering leadership, software architecture, AI-native development, and building high-performing teams.

Written by Brian Seitel (https://brianseitel.com). Every post is available as clean markdown by appending `.md` to its slug. The complete corpus is at https://blog.brianseitel.com/llms-full.txt.

## Posts

- [Too Loud to Think With](https://blog.brianseitel.com/too-loud-to-think-with.md): We lost a word. But I have a new one. (2026-06-13)
- [A Founder is not a King](https://blog.brianseitel.com/a-founder-is-not-a-king.md): Being a founder confers great power, but it also constricts you. (2026-06-05)
- [You Still Have to Know What to Ask](https://blog.brianseitel.com/you-still-have-to-know-what-to-ask.md): The paradigm shift we need: the LLM prompts ME. (2026-06-01)
- [When Code is Free, What Do You Measure?](https://blog.brianseitel.com/when-code-is-free-what-do-you-measure.md): Why the metrics we use to track engineering output are broken in an AI-native world, and what we should be measuring instead. (2026-03-29)
- [Long Live the Vibes](https://blog.brianseitel.com/long-live-the-vibes.md): Why the software development lifecycle isn't dead, and how to think about the role of AI in software development. (2026-03-18)
- [On Hiring](https://blog.brianseitel.com/on-hiring.md): Why the traditional hiring process is flawed and how to use your existing team as a benchmark for hiring decisions. (2026-03-01)
- [On Trust](https://blog.brianseitel.com/on-trust.md): Why trust is the foundation of successful engineering and organizational relationships. (2025-11-05)
- [On Prioritization](https://blog.brianseitel.com/on-prioritization.md): Why prioritization is the key to successful engineering and organizational outcomes. (2025-11-05)
- [Decisiveness: The Most Valuable Leadership Skill](https://blog.brianseitel.com/decisiveness-the-most-valuable-leadership-skill.md): Why decisiveness is more important than being right, and how to build it as a muscle. (2025-10-16)

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