The Repository Is All You Need
Tech startups don't need twenty platforms. The codebase is already the product — everything else is a file waiting to live beside it.
10 min read
AI
Insights on AI from two decades of experience in tech, AI, and scalable systems
AI · LLM · system design
The Memory Illusion: AI Persistence Isn't Intelligence
AI memory systems solve storage, not memory. Retrieval precision and relevance judgment are both unsolved — and wrong context actively degrades quality.
10 min read
AI · LLM · essay
AI Will Help You Drift With Confidence
The most expensive thing you can do with AI is hand it the wrong problem. It will not tell you. It will help you drift with confidence — and without domain knowledge, you will not notice until it is too late.
9 min read
AI · LLM · essay
You Can't Prompt Your Way Out of Ignorance
Training data is the internet's average, hallucinations baked in. Domain knowledge is the grounding layer that makes AI useful rather than confidently wrong.
8 min read
AI · technology leadership · decision-making
Your Meetings Are the New Technical Debt: AI Compounds It
AI doesn't fix broken communication — it accelerates through it. Ignore your decision-making infrastructure while adopting AI and the debt compounds silently.
10 min read
AI · software engineering · system design
AI Doesn't Read Code. It Reads Patterns.
AI code generation works by pattern-matching, not reading intent. Why it fails in enterprise — and why pattern-first codebases feel like magic.
14 min read
system design · technology leadership · AI
The Monorepo Is Your AI's Connective Tissue
The monorepo was always a bet on shared understanding. In the AI era, that bet pays exponentially — if you evolve what lives in the repo alongside the code.
11 min read