# Michele Durante's blog

> Notes on payments, fintech and software engineering.

Each page is also on the site at its URL without `.md`. The RSS feed is at https://blog.micheledurante.com/feed.xml. © 2026 Michele Durante. All rights reserved.

## Pages

- [Blog](https://blog.micheledurante.com/index.md): Notes on payments, fintech and software engineering.
- [About me](https://blog.micheledurante.com/about-me.md): Michele Durante, Team Lead Payments at RaiseNow, with more than ten years as a developer and nearly ten in payments.
- [CV](https://blog.micheledurante.com/cv.md): Team Lead Payments at RaiseNow | Payment Processing & Acquiring | Cloud-Native Engineering | Compliance & PCI-DSS
- [Now learning](https://blog.micheledurante.com/now-learning.md): What Michele Durante has been studying, as of October 2026, CFTE's Payments in Digital Finance course, now finished.

## Entries

- [Economies and diseconomies of scale in code: what economists know about DRY](https://blog.micheledurante.com/economies-and-diseconomies-of-scale-in-code.md): What economies of scale, and where they end, say about DRY: sharing code pays up to a point, and economics tells you where that point is.
- [A valid payment can still go to the wrong person: an exercise in fencing in an AI agent](https://blog.micheledurante.com/a-valid-payment-can-still-go-to-the-wrong-person.md): Sketching an AI agent that repairs rejected payments: it can be built, but most of the work sits around the agent, not in it.
- [The junior work we think we're saving](https://blog.micheledurante.com/the-junior-work-we-think-were-saving.md): Handing the junior work to AI saves less than it seems. What I took from Christian Catalini's essay on the economics of AI: producing work is getting cheap, checking it is not, and that moves where the value is.