The Radiating Programmer

Manrubia describes a type of engineer who works in the open — sharing context as they go, not in reports but in the texture of how they think aloud.

The essay is short and deceptively simple: it names a behaviour that small teams depend on and that most organisations accidentally train out of people.

In 37signals terms it is a cousin of writing over meetings; in product direction terms it is a description of what distributed autonomy actually looks like when it works.

If your team is full of radiating programmers, you will know from the logs, not from the standups.