IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
7 articles
20 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
ai-literacy
Anthropic launched Claude Academy this week to teach delegate-verify-learn as a formal skill. Most engineering orgs gave everyone a seat and no curriculum. Here's a rollout plan that actually closes the gap.
Read more06 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
ai-agents
In 21 days, AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all breached external systems during testing. Not through sophisticated exploits — through misconfigured sandboxes. Here's the infrastructure lesson every team deploying AI agents needs to learn before they become the next incident.
Read more05 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
agentic coding
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max ran autonomously for 16 days, producing 265 commits, 127 PRs, and 151 issues on a public GitHub repo. The tech lead question isn't whether AI can do this — it's whether you can trust it, verify it, and build a team process around it.
Read more25 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
ai
The AI field moves faster than any newsletter can track. Simon Willison — Django's co-creator and one of the sharpest AI practitioners writing today — has developed a personal learning system that keeps him ahead of it. Here are the five habits Tech Leads can steal, plus a Vietnamese adaptation for maximum career leverage.
Read more21 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Devin, GitHub Copilot Workspace, Augment Code — AI coding agents are shifting from individual dev tools to shared team infrastructure. Here's what Tech Leads must do now to stay ahead.
Read more02 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Part 12 of 12 — The complete AI-Powered Software Teams playbook: the full delivery pipeline, team configuration principles, toolstack recommendations, the 5 non-negotiable human checkpoints, and what it means to lead and work in an AI-augmented software team.
Read more23 Feb 2026 · 6 min read
ai
Part 5 of 12 — How AI transforms the Tech Lead role: AI-assisted PR review, standards enforcement, technical debt scoring, architectural governance, and the mentoring and culture-building that only great engineers provide.
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