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The Foundation Still Matters
AI tools amplify whatever you bring to the table. The eight thousand startups rebuilding their apps right now brought the wrong thing.
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Leave It Better Than You Found It
A campsite rule that became a software principle that works as a career strategy. Three layers: deliver, optimize, improve.
The Bus is Leaving...
Government agencies are spending years deploying yesterday's AI tools while agentic development compresses delivery from months to days. The gap isn't linear anymore. It's exponential.
Open Source Is Struggling and Open Source Might Be the Answer
The social construct is fraying. The principle is thriving. The distinction between the two is the only thing that matters.
Prod is the only Test that Matters
Organizations optimize for the risk of change while silently accruing the far greater risk of irrelevance. The practitioners solved this decades ago. The structure just won't listen.
WASM Isn't Always Faster
WebAssembly delivers on its promise, but the promise is more specific than the marketing suggests. The advantage isn't raw speed — it's predictable performance in the face of computational unpredictability.
Deploy From Here
The centralized CI/CD pipeline was the right bridge for its era. Containers, powerful workstations, and agentic tooling put us on the other side.
Token Spend is a Vanity Metric
The companies pulling back aren't proving AI doesn't work. They're proving that vanity metrics and unlimited budgets are a bad combination regardless of the technology.
Strong Opinions, Loosely Held
A person without a position is a person without a signal. And no signal means no relevance.
High-Performing Teams Were Always Agentic
The playbook for building great AI systems is the same one we've ignored for human teams since 2009.
Mythos vs. the Monolith
Listen to this article0:00/2251× Anthropic announced recently that their new Mythos model is too dangerous to release to
Your AI strategy is probably too complicated
Listen to this article0:00/1971× AI continues to consume all the oxygen in the room. We’ve gone from
Personal Software is the Promise of Citizen Development
Listen to this article0:00/2611× It's AI Month at Work: The Conversation April is “AI Month” at
The Claude Code Leak: A Masterclass in the "Iceberg" of Engineering
Listen to this article0:00/2751× Claude Code leaked recently due to a misconfigured software pipeline—the digital equivalent of
The AI x Workflow Conundrum
Listen to this article0:00/1861× We love talking about AI in extremes; we focus on total disruption, mass unemployment,
Peak Software?
Listen to this article0:00/2781× Back in the 1950s, a paper was published suggesting that there was an upper
Markdown is the new way to use text, change my mind.
Listen to this article0:00/2381× If you don't know what Markdown is, you might be in the
Your Portfolio is Your Storytelling Superpower
Listen to this article0:00/2671× It’s been a hot minute since my last post about skills. The meme
A Tale of Two AI Assistants: Why One Delivered and the Other Didn't
Listen to this article0:00/1861× AI is fundamentally changing software development, but not in the way many people think.
From ISO to CMMC: Navigating the New Cybersecurity Frontier
Listen to this article0:00/2101× When the Department of Defense (DoD) first rolled out the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
Key Principles for Developing with AI
Listen to this article0:00/3211× The article was originally posted on LinkedIn. During earlier experiments, I discovered key guidance