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Essays and notes on AI, software, and building things.

2026
  • On Building with AI in Production
    The gap between a promising prototype and a system you'd trust with real work is wider than it looks.
    Apr 2026 AI
  • Notes on Async Engineering Teams
    What I've noticed about the teams that make distributed work feel effortless.
    Mar 2026 Engineering
  • Against Complexity in Software
    Most complexity is accidental. A few heuristics I keep coming back to.
    Feb 2026 Engineering
  • What I Learned Shipping a Side Project
    Six months of building something nobody asked for — and what it taught me about product judgment.
    Jan 2026 Projects
2025
  • The Consultant's Trap
    On the difference between delivering work and doing work — and how easy it is to confuse the two.
    Nov 2025 Consulting
  • LLMs as a Reasoning Layer
    A mental model for where language models add the most value in a system — and where they're mostly hype.
    Sep 2025 AI
  • How I Scope Engineering Projects
    The questions I always ask before writing a line of code.
    Jul 2025 Engineering
  • On Writing Things Down
    Why the discipline of writing forces clarity that meetings never do.
    Apr 2025 Thinking
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