What I learned strapping AI agents onto a nine year old Rails appFor a long while my team's AI setup was a pile of good intentions. Somebody had a CLAUDE.md. Somebody else had Cursor rules copied off a Twitter thread. One developer was trying Kiro and had steering 2ARSep 15 · 9 min readbuildstuff.hashnode.dev
You can't direct what you can't readI'll just say it: you can't get good at building with AI unless you learned to code first. Every time this comes up, the same objections roll in. Someone mentions the calculator. Someone mentions the 1NJul 21 · 5 min readbuildstuff.hashnode.dev
Your first ten engineers are your culture. You can't patch it at fifty.Every company has a culture page. Free snacks, "we move fast," "we're like a family." Most of it is decoration. Your real culture isn't written down anywhere. It's whatever your first ten engineers doJun 17 · 6 min readbuildstuff.hashnode.dev
Beyond the 167 HoursWe talk a lot about the 167 hours. One hour of therapy, and then a whole week of life the therapist never sees. It's a real gap, and it's worth naming. But after listening to enough therapists, I've sJun 15 · 6 min readblog.mirova.ai
Quiet progressA therapist I spoke with last month told me something that stuck. "I have a client who's been with me for eight months. I can feel that something has shifted. She can't. And that gap is starting to weMay 19 · 7 min readblog.mirova.ai
