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Alex Ewerlöf
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Alex Ewerlöf's personal blog at blog.alexewerlof.com covers programming, ai and career. Since 2023, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “6 Archetypes of Broken Ownership”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Alex Ewerlöf's blog for essays on company ownership, team size, and leadership, plus write-ups on local AI tooling such as running local LLMs for coding agents.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Technical Leadership, Reliability Engineering, Growth.
Most-linked posts?
- 6 Archetypes of Broken Ownership5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-08-14
- Service Level Indicator (SLI)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-12-09
- Organization Architecture3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-08-05
- Percentile3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-01
- Staff Engineer vs. Engineering Manager2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-01
- Never be responsible for what you don't control2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-25
- We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-15
- AI Systems Engineering Patterns – Alex Ewerlöf Notes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-05
- When a team is too big2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-16
What Hacker News says?
Here is an article on ownership and one viewpoint that I support on why it's broken https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/broken-ownership
Comment linking /p/broken-ownership
on “Every company should be owned by its employees”Submitted Coding is not solved as a story · 585 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.alexewerlof.com/robots.txt Gives a small hint. It should be respected and effective.
Comment linking /robots.txt
on “When a team is too big”Submitted When a team is too big as a story · 123 points
HN discussionAn excellent, relevant blog post: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/your-business-value
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on “Quiet Quitting: Why Employees Are Demanding Fairness and Boundaries”Submitted The rise and fall of Jev hype as a story · 93 points
HN discussionThe accompanying article explains how it works: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/local-browser-ai And the source code is available at: https://github.com/alexewerlof/local-browser-ai
Comment linking /p/local-browser-ai
on “Show HN: Local Browser AI”Submitted Staff Engineer vs. Engineering Manager as a story · 22 points
HN discussionIt is difficult, this is why it required a whole institution. And not just an institution, but with proper mandate as well. It is also necessary sometimes. In fact, Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month, specifically in chapters 3 "The Surgical Team" and 4 "Aristocracy, Democracy, and System Design" explains why strong (even, maybe, authoritarian) central planning is imperative for large [software] projects. Without…
Comment linking /p/broken-ownership
on “Optimizing Things in the USSR”Submitted Show HN: Local Browser AI as a story · 15 points
HN discussionHere's a visual post for using LM Studio and VS Code (and Pi): https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/local-llms-for-agentic-coding One way or another local AI is the future. I actually find weaker models more interesting because it keeps me sharp (at the cost of velocity of course).
Comment linking /p/local-llms-for-agentic-coding
on “How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS”Submitted 6 Archetypes of Broken Ownership as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThis [0] was posted recently and (IMO) really captures the reality of ownership. Without all 3 of responsibility, mandate, and knowledge there can be no ownership. 0: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/broken-ownership
Comment linking /p/broken-ownership
on “All You Need to Become a Servant Leader”Submitted We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Service Level Calculator – An education tool for SLI/SLO/error bugets as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Linkedout: See how much data LinkedIn has on you as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Practice as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Bet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Staff Engineer vs. Engineering Manager as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Senior to Staff Engineer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principal Engineer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Never be responsible for what you don't control as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted RAG vs. Skill vs. MCP vs. RLM as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kebab vs. Cake Organization as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Organization Architecture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Service Level Indicator (SLI) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hot Take – Alex Ewerlöf Notes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anthropic installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Fluency Leveling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emergent Properties as a story · 2 points
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