The Lazy Engineer Manifesto


I believe in the sacred art of solving problems with the least amount of effort possible. Not because I’m lazy—okay, maybe a little—but because lazy engineers are efficient by nature. We automate, streamline, and delete more than we build. Why? Because real productivity isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing *less better*.

This blog is a shrine to underengineering, to building the thing that works today (not in some imagined future), and to resisting the siren call of premature optimization. If a script saves me 30 seconds a month, I’ll spend 3 hours building it. That's ROI, baby.

I start projects because they sound fun. I abandon them when they stop being fun. And sometimes, I finish them—by accident.

Tools don’t matter. Stack doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is: did I ship it? Even if it’s duct-taped together with Bash, Astro, and a post-it note stuck to the monitor.

I’m not trying to scale. I’m trying to *escape*. Escape meetings, feature bloat, and unnecessary complexity. The dream? Small tools. Big impact. Zero burnout.

So if you’re here looking for The Right Way™ to build something… wrong blog. But if you’re into rogue productivity, weekend coding, and highly questionable solutions that work *just well enough*—welcome home.

– The Lazy Engineer 🛠️