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Eli Landon

Founder of Zamski. I write about what your engineering tools cannot tell the board.

The decisions your team made last quarter that never reached a PR.

Jun 6, 2026

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4 min read

The decisions your team made last quarter that never reached a PR.

Most of the decisions that shape your roadmap are made by silence. The board pack describes the ones that became code. The expensive ones are the ones that did not.

Eli Landon
Eli Landon
Sarah Smith will leave in 60 days. Her calendar already told you.

Jun 6, 2026

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4 min read

Sarah Smith will leave in 60 days. Her calendar already told you.

The resignation Slack lands at 4pm on a Thursday. The signal was in her calendar six weeks earlier. What your engineering tools cannot tell the board.

Eli Landon
Eli Landon
How a single Claude Code session became your largest engineering line item this month.

Jun 6, 2026

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5 min read

How a single Claude Code session became your largest engineering line item this month.

Eli Landon
Eli Landon
What the Anthropic line item on your P&L is not telling you.

Jun 6, 2026

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5 min read

What the Anthropic line item on your P&L is not telling you.

Your Anthropic bill is the visible cost. The real cost is the unmanaged session that produced four hours of rework for one senior engineer. One is on the P&L. The other is not.

Eli Landon
Eli Landon
When your team ships clean code that does not move the company.

Jun 6, 2026

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5 min read

When your team ships clean code that does not move the company.

Last sprint shipped 23 clean, reviewed, merged pull requests. Name the declared objective each one moved. The list you cannot complete is the AI ROI question your board is about to ask.

Eli Landon
Eli Landon
AI Made the Team Faster. It Made the Quarter Slower.

Jun 6, 2026

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6 min read

AI Made the Team Faster. It Made the Quarter Slower.

The Anthropic line item is up. The deployment dashboard is green. The feature that was supposed to land in Q1 is now Q2. The three facts are connected and your tools are not telling you how.

Eli Landon
Eli Landon

From the Commit Up

A monthly read on what your engineering tools cannot tell the board. Founder-written by Eli Landon at Zamski.

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