Decision narratives from real client work, course delivery, and building our own products — not just theory.
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As a junior, I had a rule — nobody taught it to me, I came up with it myself, and I believed it for a long time: "Writing good software is enough to make good money." I thought that the cleaner the code and the more solid the architecture, the more successful the product would be.
Working on an enterprise portal platform, I hit a realization: the platform team was really an internal vendor — and its customers were the other teams trying to integrate with it. Once I saw it that way, I made one decision: run the platform like a product.
Yakın zamanda üzerinde çalıştığım bir projede günün büyük kısmında yanımda bir "ikinci mühendis" vardı: Claude. Bu sistemin önemli bir kısmının ilk taslağını yazan bendim ama son sözü söyleyen hep ben olmadım.
I had a list of seven places I planned to put AI into Appontu. Three survived.
