19h ago · 6 min read · The junior engineer sat across from me in a conference room that smelled like stale coffee and stress. He had just shipped a feature that was working in production. Tests passing. Metrics green. The kind of delivery that should have felt like a win. ...
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1d ago · 7 min read · He said it almost as an aside, somewhere around the twenty-minute mark of our call. He was running a team of several dozen engineers, and we had been talking through where his AI rollout stood. Then the real thing surfaced. "If I'm being honest," he ...
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3d ago · 6 min read · You're evaluating LLM providers and someone invariably raises the concern: "What if OpenAI changes their pricing? What if they deprecate the model we built on? We'll be locked in." It's a legitimate concern wrapped in the wrong frame. The lock-in ris...
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3d ago · 7 min read · If I had to roll out AI again, I wouldn't change the tools. I'd change the approach. I'd start with one repeatable workflow, map every step, define what good output looks like, encode it once, and turn the whole thing into a pipeline. Then I'd improv...
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4d ago · 7 min read · You're launching your startup. Your technical decisions matter, but you're also trying to move fast and validate the product. Everyone tells you "don't over-engineer." So you make choices: that stack, that database, that architecture. Six months late...
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Apr 3 · 7 min read · The first time I opened Cursor, I used it for ten minutes and shut it down. It felt foreign. The suggestions arrived faster than I could evaluate them. The workflow I'd built over fifteen years wanted no part of it. I closed the laptop, told myself I...
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Apr 2 · 5 min read · I was at a lunch table with my boss and most of my team, telling the story of how we'd doubled our velocity. I was proud of the number. I told it like it was a win. My team was sitting right there, listening to me describe what they'd done to make th...
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