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Insights on ai from two decades of experience in tech, AI, and scalable systems

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
AI · essay · technology leadership

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.
12 min read
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