<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>smpl — Field Notes</title><description>Shorter observational writing drawn from real deployments of persistent codebase intelligence. Things we have learned worth writing down.</description><link>https://smpl.io/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>The real bottleneck is usually not engineering capacity</title><link>https://smpl.io/field-notes/the-bottleneck-myth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smpl.io/field-notes/the-bottleneck-myth/</guid><description>What teams describe as a throughput problem is often illegibility in disguise. A note from real deployments on why understanding compounds faster than output.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>