Will Hackett
Writing
2026
- My advice to a younger me
- 12 seconds to scan 3,000 rows — oops
- Workforce Engineering has always existed. We just never named it.
- What is Workforce Engineering, and how do you achieve flow state?
- Boring is better: Pushing 67k telemetry events per second into Postgres
- Amortising a hallucination
- AI agents won't kill your system of record. Your rate limits will.
- Digital ID done right: verifiable claims without the surveillance
- Why I moved to Microsoft 365
- Digital sovereignty requires funding, not just adoption
- The best engineering teams can turn on a dime
2025
- Agentic coding is changing the engineering workforce—just not how you think
- Reclaiming the commons: the case for an accountable internet
- Moore's Law for AI is officially dead
- Big teams, small team energy
- Search kind of sucks now
- How do you explain the £20M engineering spend?
- Fixing email spam with AI: When traditional filters aren't enough
- Pragmatic: Lessons from building (and winding down) an AI startup
- Analytics is fine, tracking is the problem