Engineering

Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops

Software engineering has evolved into systems architecture. 37signals, Artemis & SpaceXAI all report the same shift : agents write the code, engineers design the systems that decide whether it is right. The scarce resource was never the talent, it was the foundation to verify against.

Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops

How Long Should an AI Agent Live?

Should a calendar agent run for your entire five-year company tenure or reset every day? Why perpetual sessions fail & how to design agent lifespans.

How Long Should an AI Agent Live?

Optimizing Software Factories

As engineering teams shrink and AI agents multiply, key-person risk becomes existential. The ratio you choose determines your team's shape and its fragility.

Optimizing Software Factories

9 Observations from Building with AI Agents

Practical lessons from a year building AI agent systems : prototype with frontier models, fine-tune for stable tasks, use static typing, & run competing agents as critics.

9 Observations from Building with AI Agents

Will I Be Paid in Tokens?

My AI inference costs hit $100k annualized. Then I cut them 88% in a weekend. Technology companies are adding a fourth component to engineering compensation.

Will I Be Paid in Tokens?

The Done List

AI agents are revolutionizing productivity by transforming traditional to-do lists into 'done lists' of completed work awaiting approval. Learn how the disappearing middle of work changes everything about planning & productivity.

The Done List

Congratulations, Robot. You've Been Promoted!

OpenAI's Codex went from intern to senior engineer in 12 months. At 92% adoption & 72% more pull requests, the architect-implementer workflow proves AI has graduated beyond junior-level work.

Congratulations, Robot. You've Been Promoted!