Essays
The Invisible Platform.
Five companies, 160 million lives, and one architecture that has to disappear into the floorboards before anyone trusts it.
Agents as Teammates, Not Tools.
On assigning work to something that doesn't have a Slack avatar, doesn't go home, and still manages to surprise you.
Prototypes > Specs.
The working thing ends the meeting. A short argument for showing before telling, in a field that is addicted to telling.
The PM Is Dead. Long Live the Builder.
Something broke in the last six months. Not broke in a bad way — broke like a dam breaks. Everything that was building up behind it is now rushing through.
The Five Breaks.
Something is happening to the structure of work that's bigger than any single trend. AI gets the headlines. But AI is just the most visible part of a deeper shift.
The Combination Premium.
How to build the expertise AI can't replicate. If depth alone isn't the moat anymore, what is? The answer is surprisingly mathematical: combinations.
The Expertise Inversion.
The knowledge that made you valuable is becoming the knowledge AI does best. Not because you did anything wrong — because the game inverted while you were playing it.
From Code Wizards to Cosmic Architects.
Navigating the AI apocalypse in tech. The senior developer's journey through grief — and out the other side as something new.