Michael Victor Zink
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Engineering
Michael Victor Zink
From parser combinators to hand-written TDOP: On adopting sqlparser-rs at Readyset
How Readyset replaced its homegrown SQL parser with sqlparser-rs, improving performance, reducing maintenance overhead, and tackling a years long backlog of parsing edge cases along the way.
2026-05-2119 min read
EngineeringMichael Victor Zink
/brutal-review and the new 80/20 rule
(Mistakes and em-dashes are my own.) We have a Claude Code command in our monorepo which is a good example of what I’m calling the "80/20 token rule": if it takes 20M LLM tokens to write a feature, you should spend 80M on ensuring quality: safety measures, testing, and of course code review. If software quality was an open problem before, then agentic engineering has blown it even more wide opener. At a high level, here's what it does: 1. Read the patch to review and all related code. 2. Ha
2026-02-0322 min read