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Practical notes on AI, agents, and software architecture.

  • The Harness Around AI Is Half the Job

    Sep 19, 2026

    Provenance, guardrails, license checks. The tools already exist. The question is whether we run them on AI-generated code with the same rigor we run them on human-written code.

  • Agentic AI Isn't Replacement. It's a New Level of Intelligence.

    Sep 14, 2026

    The most useful framing for Agentic AI isn't "which jobs will it take?" It's "what can we build together that neither of us could produce alone?"

  • Token Economics: LLM Cost, Infrastructure Cost or Business Outcome Cost?

    Aug 15, 2026

    What actually makes up AI cost, and the concrete levers to reduce it without losing sight of the outcome.

  • Your Organization Has AI. So Why Isn't Productivity Improving?

    Aug 12, 2026

    The problem may not be the AI. It may be the way we work.

  • AI-First Software Engineering: Reimagining the SDLC

    Aug 9, 2026

    How Generative AI could transform software engineering — and why existing products make the problem much harder.

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