Strategy
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.
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.
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.
Your AI strategy is probably too complicated
AI continues to consume all the oxygen in the room. We’ve gone from surprise to memes to denial with bouts of anger and sadness. And maybe just a touch of nihilism as we watch the multi-trillion dollar companies in this space maneuver, collapse entire consumer ecosystems, and appear to be rushing fa