Make Claude unblock the 10x engineer inside you

SIEM-eng all-hands · 18 Jun 2026 · 7 min

Kirill Chernakov
Kirill Chernakov One Workflow · Elastic

I used to write this PR myself.

Not anymore.

You are the bottleneck.

Your team's velocity = your hands per day.

It used to be.

It isn't anymore.

Three things. Then a live demo.

1
What I delegate
2
How I scope it
3
What I do instead

1. What.

PRs.

CI triage.

Profiling.

Investigations.

Dogfooding.

2. How.

Models are smart enough.

Your job: ground them.

Hands. Eyes. Logs. Loops.

Grounding looks like…

Start Kibana
Tail the logs
Click the browser
Take screenshots
Read PR comments
Read CI logs
Hit the API
Record videos
Run the evals

More grounding → more autonomy.

It verifies itself until the goal is done.

AI amplifies what you already have.

Take this one home.

Taste.

Have it

Ship more.

Don't

Ship more slop.

Foundations.

Strong

Ship faster.

Weak

A million bespoke, over-engineered scripts.

Tools.

Grounded

It verifies itself until done.

Ungrounded

Confident slop you'll spend longer fixing.

Fix the foundations first.

The leverage is real. So is the multiplier on your weak spots.

Don't start by optimizing tokens.

First: distill yourself.

Make it work. Manually. Then with evals.

Then optimize.

3. What instead.

The part only I can do.

Live

security.setAlertTags

Sibling of Zhenya's setAlertStatus (PR #273920). Same pattern. New step. Watch.

This week:

Delegate one PR you'd normally write.

Pick the boring one. Scope it. Review the diff.

Questions?

ship it. cap

I'll buy this hat for anyone who ships it.

Agentic Kibana fix, single PR, under $10 — Claude run + tokens.

Show the invoice and the merged commit.

caps.kiryous.com/c/ship-it