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Essays on engineering, AI, and the craft of building software.

Apr 26, 2026
Spotting barrels when the ammunition does most of the visible firing

AI steepened the performance curve instead of flattening it. Output used to tell you who the barrels were. It does not anymore.

Apr 25, 2026
Every team has barrels and ammunition. Which one are you?

Keith Rabois's framework on operators is more relevant than ever. AI just made ammunition dramatically cheaper. Barrels did not get cheaper at all.

Apr 17, 2026
Anthropic studied 1 million AI conversations. One finding changes how I think about my team.

The experienced users have a 10% higher success rate. And the gap is widening, not closing.

Apr 10, 2026
From coder to code reviewer: the skill shift nobody's talking about

When AI generates the code, your job shifts from writing to verifying. Here is a practical playbook for the new reality.

Apr 9, 2026
The PR review paradox: why your team scrutinizes typos and rubber-stamps rewrites

The amount of time spent reviewing a pull request is inversely proportional to how much it can actually break production.

Apr 8, 2026
Anthropic's advisor strategy: delete your custom model routing code

Sonnet + Opus advisor scores higher than Sonnet alone and costs 12% less per task. We were building this ourselves. Now we do not have to.

Apr 7, 2026
What AI fluency actually looks like (and how to interview for it)

Anthropic studied 10,000 real conversations and built an AI Fluency Index. 85.7% of productive AI conversations involve iteration, not acceptance.

Feb 24, 2026
From 10x to 100x: an engineer's practical guide to AI leverage

Most engineers are solving the wrong problem with AI. The real leverage is not getting faster, it is building systems that make asking unnecessary.

Feb 19, 2026
If you are using GitHub Copilot only for autocomplete, you are keeping a senior engineer on the bench

The real shift is not chat. It is agents. Drop an .agent.md file into your repo and stop repeating context.

Feb 2, 2026
I spent my weekend watching AI agents gossip on their own social network

Moltbook is literally Facebook for AI agents. I genuinely could not tell which posts were autonomous agent musings versus human-prompted content.

Feb 1, 2026
After spending more time with OpenClaw: an engineer's perspective

The architecture is worth studying. The security model is not ready for production. Both of these things can be true.

Jan 31, 2026
Clawd.bot: this open-source project has 44,000 GitHub stars for a reason

Have not had this 'wait, this changes everything' feeling since ChatGPT dropped. It is what Siri was supposed to be 13 years ago.

Jan 29, 2026
Anthropic says AI is hurting developer skills in its new paper

The research is real but the headline is incomplete. Here is what the study actually found, what it missed, and what to do about it.

Oct 14, 2025
Context engineering is what separates production-ready AI agents from proof of concepts

Anthropic just published an excellent deep-dive and it crystallizes something I have been seeing across enterprise AI deployments. Prompt engineering was act one.

Oct 8, 2025
The AI effectiveness matrix: understanding performance variance across codebases

Why AI tools deliver 300% gains for some teams and 10% for others. The answer is not the tools.

Oct 7, 2025
Prompt engineering as a core engineering skill

The difference between mediocre and exceptional AI output is not the model. It is the prompt. Here is how to treat prompts as engineered artifacts.

Oct 5, 2025
The six types of context your AI needs (and how to document them)

After analyzing hundreds of AI-generated code issues, six categories of missing context explain nearly every failure. Here is how to fix each one.

Oct 1, 2025
Why your team's AI tools are not working (and how to fix it)

The gap between AI-assisted teams (10-30% gains) and AI-ready teams (100-300% gains) is not the tools. It is the context.

Sep 22, 2025
Multi-agent communication patterns: a technical deep dive

Individual agent intelligence matters less than seamless coordination. Three production-tested patterns for making agents work together.

Sep 19, 2025
10 things a Microsoft hackathon taught me about multi-agent systems

When your agent workflow fails at 2 AM and you need to ship by morning, you learn fast.

Sep 14, 2025
The new AI engineer's toolkit

Is it still coding if a significant part of your code is written by AI? The role of the staff and principal engineer is fundamentally changing.