Tobias Werner is a software engineer and engineering manager who has spent a decade working on the organisational and process side of software development. He writes about the hidden costs that accumulate in underfunded areas like documentation, testing, and technical communication, and advocates for making the business case for these investments in terms engineering leaders actually respond to.
DevOps
Software Development
CI That Fails After an Agent Commit: Who Fixes the Red Build
Tobias Werner
September 30, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Software Development
The Agent That Marks the Task Done Before the Tests Pass
Tobias Werner
September 30, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Software Development
Agent Skills vs a README: Which Instructions Survive the Next Session
Tobias Werner
September 30, 2026
Careers
Engineering Management
How I’d go from programmer to manager without burning out in the first year
Tobias Werner
September 21, 2026
Careers
Engineering Management
Hard conversations at work — and the ones that follow you home. What I’d practice first
Tobias Werner
September 21, 2026
Engineering Management
Software Development
What Big Tech process actually buys you — and why a 12-person company should steal only some of it
Tobias Werner
September 21, 2026
Engineering Management
Software Development
Unit tests, integration tests, TDD, and mocks: what I’d keep in 2026 and what I’d drop
Tobias Werner
September 18, 2026
Engineering Management
Tech Careers
Math kids vs humanities kids in tech: the split I stopped believing
Tobias Werner
September 18, 2026
Engineering Management
Software Development
Spec-driven development at a 100-person company: what actually stuck after we tried it
Tobias Werner
September 18, 2026
Engineering Management
Software Development
Tech lead from A to Z: influence, management, and the delegation I got wrong at first
Tobias Werner
September 18, 2026
Engineering Management
Tech Job Market & Careers
I watched three layoff rounds. The people who stayed weren’t the “best coders”
Tobias Werner
August 28, 2026
Engineering Management
Tech Job Market & Careers
Leetcode, take-homes, and culture fits: what I’d keep in IT hiring and what I’d kill
Tobias Werner
August 28, 2026
Engineering Management
Tech Job Market & Careers
How I’d hire engineers in 2026 if I had to start the process from scratch
Tobias Werner
August 28, 2026
Engineering Management
How many standups it takes to ruin a week — and what I cut first
Tobias Werner
August 28, 2026
Engineering Management
Meetings, “productivity,” and burnout: I stopped optimizing the wrong hours
Tobias Werner
August 28, 2026
Engineering Management
Software Development
The Real Costs of Poor Documentation in Software Projects
Tobias Werner
July 7, 2026