IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
35 articles
15 Sep 2026 · 3 min read
ai
A friend's offhand comment sent me back to check my own AI habits against a new study on dependent vs. autonomous cognitive offloading. The two feel identical in the moment. They aren't.
Read more13 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
ai
It's not about which model scores higher. It's about which one still gets the job done when you're not sitting next to it. Notes from a year of switching, paying, and betting real client work on Claude.
Read more29 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
ai
AI adoption is up 65% but PR throughput only increased 8%. The gap between AI productivity hype and measured reality is large and explainable. Here's what the data actually shows, why the 10x narrative is misleading, and what to measure instead.
Read more26 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
2026
AI isn't replacing tech leads — it's changing what great tech leadership looks like. After a year of working with AI coding tools daily, here are the 5 mental shifts every engineering leader needs to make in 2026.
Read more21 Apr 2026 · 9 min read
agentic engineering
One year after Andrej Karpathy coined 'vibe coding', the industry is moving on. Discover why vibe coding fails at scale — context collapse, cognitive debt, zero system design — and how agentic engineering is emerging as the professional discipline for AI-first software development.
Read more19 Apr 2026 · 27 min read
ai
A hands-on account of building, debugging, and shipping real features using Claude Opus 4 as a pair programmer — including the failures, the debugging rabbit holes, and the moments where AI pair programming genuinely shines.
Read more30 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
agentic-ai
Cursor's March 2026 release brings parallel subagents, BugBot Autofix, and cloud agents — a genuine shift from AI coding assistant to AI workflow engine. Here's what it means for real teams.
Read more21 Mar 2026 · 16 min read
ai
Product owners think in outcomes. Developers think in systems. AI can bridge that gap — with the right documents, workflows, and prompts. Here's exactly how.
Read more20 Mar 2026 · 16 min read
ai
Part 13 of 13 — Code generation gets all the hype, but AI's biggest impact might be in the 80% of development that isn't writing code: requirements, docs, architecture decisions, and communication.
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