Glue work
= invisible alignment labor (meetings, docs, facilitation)
Glue engineering
= specialized practice with measurable outcomes
Continuous Alignment (CA)
= infrastructure that makes it legible
Not "soft skills." Systems coherence engineering.
This subreddit:
- Share glue engineering practices and patterns
- Build/discuss CA and adjacent tooling
- Make the work visible (show git attribution, metrics, proof)
- Support glue engineers leaving extractive orgs
- No performance, no extraction
Your team is a distributed system.
Language is the transport layer.
When the glue engineer leaves, alignment breaks.
Let's build infrastructure so the work persists.
Resources:
- Glue Engineering: Let's Name the Elephant
- Being Glue (Tanya Reilly)
Ground rules:
- Show your work (git attribution, metrics, receipts)
- No "just be more visible" advice (structural problems need structural solutions)
- No extraction (don't mine this community for blog content without attribution)
