Agentic Coding Is an Amplifier, Not a Foundation
Agentic coding doesn't change what engineering discipline requires. It raises the stakes at which discipline — or its absence — shows up in your results.
11 min read
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Insights on AI from two decades of experience in tech, AI, and scalable systems
AI · technology leadership · essay
You Let Yourself Be Replaced
AI replacement is not something done to you. The data shows who actually loses — and it follows those who stop engaging with their own work.
8 min read
AI · technology leadership · system design
Company Knowledge OS: Curation Over Accumulation
Most teams dump everything into a vector database and call it knowledge management. The ones that win curate instead — signal over noise.
12 min read
AI · technology leadership · system design
The Age of the Personal OS
AI is great at curating and executing, bad at originating thought. The scarce resource becomes the individual who has structured their expertise into something a machine can act on. Personal operating systems — plain markdown, principled metadata, grep-friendly — are how that expertise compounds. The same pattern scales to teams.
13 min read
technology leadership · AI
We're Designing AI-Era Teams Without a Blueprint
AI pushed engineering up another layer. No playbook for team design exists yet — and the data shows what happens when leaders pretend it does.
10 min read
Vibe coding doesn't reduce the engineering judgment required — it amplifies it. A real experiment with Claude Code shows exactly where skill limits become output limits.
7 min read
technology leadership · AI
The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot in SaaS
Enterprise SaaS ignores the SMB market. AI-augmented solo founders are building profitable niche products big players will never pursue.
9 min read