<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Vincent Toms — Writing</title><description>Essays on AI-driven engineering, platform modernization, and engineering leadership.</description><link>https://vincenttoms.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>What 35% Faster Actually Looks Like</title><link>https://vincenttoms.com/writing/rolling-ai-across-50-engineers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vincenttoms.com/writing/rolling-ai-across-50-engineers/</guid><description>Putting Claude, Cursor, and Copilot in front of 50 engineers didn&apos;t make us faster on day one. The number came later — and it came from changing how we work, not what we type.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>AI</category><category>Engineering Leadership</category><category>Developer Productivity</category></item><item><title>Modernizing the Monolith Without Stopping the Line</title><link>https://vincenttoms.com/writing/modernizing-the-monolith/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://vincenttoms.com/writing/modernizing-the-monolith/</guid><description>Three times now I&apos;ve led a platform through a generational rewrite — Objective-C to Swift, monolith to microservices — while it kept serving millions of users. The rule that made it survivable: you are never allowed to stop shipping.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Architecture</category><category>Modernization</category><category>Mobile</category></item></channel></rss>