IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
4 articles
09 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic-ai
Anthropic's September Claude Code update quietly raised bashOutputMaxChars and taskOutputMaxChars to 128K and added a file-based subagent system prompt flag. A Tech Lead's read on why this unglamorous change matters more than most model announcements for anyone running fan-out subagent pipelines.
Read more07 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
adoption
OpenAI's internal per-researcher AI spend sat near zero through February 2026, then rocketed to roughly $600/day by late August — not from a mandate, but from a model that finally cleared the adoption bar. A Tech Lead's read on what the curve shape means for your own rollout.
Read more03 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
agentic coding
McKinsey's State of AI 2026 survey found a third of organizations skipped a software purchase because agentic coding could build it in-house — but the share reporting real EBIT impact from AI didn't move. What that gap actually means for a build-vs-buy call, from someone who's made a few of them this year.
Read more27 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
ai
JetBrains surveyed 11,000 developers — 90% use AI at work but can't measure ROI. This is the cloud adoption problem repeating itself. Here's the governance framework that actually works.
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