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Thoughts on AI-augmented development, engineering leadership, and building real products.
- I Love to Build. I Don't Love to Code. AI didn't make me a faster coder. It let me stop coding and start building again.
- The Human Operating System The most powerful tool in human history just arrived. The question isn't whether to use it — it's whether we're building the humans who can.
- Use It or Lose It AI is making us faster. It might also be making us dumber. The cognitive muscles that matter most are the ones we're most eager to hand off.
- Senior Engineers, This Is Your Moment AI didn't replace senior engineers — it gave them leverage they've never had. If you understand architecture and know what good looks like, you're unstoppable.
- AI Killed the SaaS Middleman SendGrid, LaunchDarkly, Auth0 — I built all of it faster than I would have signed up for an account. Here's what it cost me.
- Stop Building Your Business on API Quicksand Claude's API and OpenAI's API go down more than you think. If your product depends on them, you need to talk about Bedrock and Azure OpenAI. Here's the uncomfortable math.
- I Built a Working Beta in 5 Days. Here's What I Actually Learned. The real, practical lessons from building FinEL Analytica with Claude — what works, what doesn't, and the stuff nobody tells you.
- 20 Years of Programming — The Last 2 Changed Everything I've been writing code since I was in college. Nothing in those 20 years prepared me for what AI did to my workflow.