The Solved and the Unsolved
AI agents are extraordinarily good at solved problems and extraordinarily bad at unsolved ones, and knowing which you're facing is now a core engineering skill.
Field notes
Writing
Notes on technical leadership, data systems, applied AI, and the work of building organizations that can take on difficult problems.
The archive
16 entries
Training Conscientious
Thoughts on where a moat for the frontier labs might come from, and why I think the next capability shift will be subtle.
Agents as New Consultants
Frontier labs are training AI agents to work like long-running consultants, favoring general-purpose autonomy over deeper software specialization.
Good Software Design Is a Fad
What good software looks like is determined by the technological environment in which it is written
The Wrong Kind of Tenacity
Heads: I develop a novel exploit, Tails: I hack into Hugging Face
Orbs by Amp review
They're Great!
From Software Craft to Structural Engineering
When AI makes implementation cheap, software engineering shifts toward domain modeling, repeatable patterns, and systems designed to be dependable by construction.
How We Train Junior Engineers When AI Writes the Code
A more systematic engineering discipline can replace the apprenticeship in accumulated coding taste with a faster, clearer path from foundations to independent judgment.
AI Moves the Engineering Bottleneck
AI makes implementation cheaper, shifting the constraint in software engineering toward judgment, validation, and delivery.
Prototype, Diagnose, Redesign
A useful loop for building with agents when you do not know enough to specify the right solution up front.
Principles for Software Delivery in the LLM Era
The principles organizing my thinking about how software delivery changes when implementation becomes cheap.
Software Design for Clankers
Thoughts on well-designed software with ubiquitous coding agents
Life on Cruise Control
Don't live your life on cruise control
Amp inspired Agents.md docs Pi Extension
Import Amps scoped documentation functionality into Pi
Mental Models for Coding Agents
Different mental models for thinking about working with Coding Agents
I Made This
Building this portfolio site with Astro, Tailwind, and a little help from AI.