developer-productivity on Evan McDowellhttps://evanmcdowell31.github.io/tags/developer-productivity/Recent content in developer-productivity on Evan McDowellHugoen-USWed, 21 Oct 2026 10:49:00 -0400You'd think outgrowing your job means you stop doing ithttps://evanmcdowell31.github.io/story/outgrowing-your-job/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:49:00 -0400https://evanmcdowell31.github.io/story/outgrowing-your-job/For me it meant the opposite. When AI tooling frees up your week, spend it on things other people use.I had no gauge, so I measured myselfhttps://evanmcdowell31.github.io/story/i-measured-myself/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:05:00 -0400https://evanmcdowell31.github.io/story/i-measured-myself/A year of merged PRs, product work only: from the 57th–85th percentile to the 99.95th, and what actually changed.Most engineers aren't short on AI toolshttps://evanmcdowell31.github.io/story/ai-tools-worth-running/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:20:00 -0400https://evanmcdowell31.github.io/story/ai-tools-worth-running/They’re short on AI tools that are easy to run and worth what they cost. Here’s the layer I built to fix that.