IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
4 articles
02 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
ai-productivity
Teams using AI coding tools generate 98% more PRs — and wait 91% longer for them to be reviewed. DORA data shows that for every 25% increase in AI tool adoption, team stability drops 7.2%. This is Amdahl's Law applied to software delivery, and the bottleneck isn't where most engineering leaders are looking.
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 more23 Feb 2026 · 4 min read
angular
Post J — Day-to-day developer experience in an Nx Angular monorepo: library watch mode, Nx affected for daily work, trunk-based development, feature flags for parallel work, and avoiding common multi-team blockers.
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