Field notes
Practitioner essays on building production software with AI agents.
Operator-grade reports on the systems, decisions, and economics of shipping software with AI — what worked, what failed, and what changed.
Articles
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As CxO, the 2 Things Your HR Needs to Do Different
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Your HR is declining AI-native candidates who ship in weeks what your teams ship in quarters. Two critical changes your HR needs to make before you lose the talent war.
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What Got You Here Won’t Keep You Here: A Letter to VPs of Engineering
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗VPs of Engineering: your playbook is obsolete. Here’s how AI changes everything about how you lead, measure, and develop your organization.
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Your AI Investment Is Failing. Here’s Why.
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Most enterprise AI investments are failing. Here’s the real reason: you’re measuring tools, not outcomes. Learn how to fix your approach.
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Waste Density vs Value Density: Managing the Emotions of Your Board with Real Economics
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Learn to communicate AI value to your board using waste density vs. value density. Move beyond emotional arguments to real economics.
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If Your Vendor Doesn’t Ask These Three Questions Before the Demo, Politely Ask for a Field CTO Who Will
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Before your next AI vendor demo, make sure they ask these 3 critical questions. If they don’t, you’re getting a performance, not a partnership.
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The Bottlenecked CEO: You Don’t Need New Metrics to Quantify AI Value. You Need the Courage to Eliminate the Silos That Make Measurement Impossible.
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗A CEO watches a startup take 10 percent of his market in 8 months. The problem is not metrics. It is the silos that make measuring AI value impossible. A story about organizational courage.
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You Have a Sub-Five Miler. Your Relay Team Still Loses.
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗You have ten engineers who could ship the next quarter alone. You have forty more who, through no fault of their own, cannot. Where do you put the AI investment, across the floor or into the ceiling? On the math, the answer most CTOs give is wrong, and the org chart you currently run is the residue of avoiding it for a decade.
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The Executive Operating Model We Run In Private: Four Sessions That Turn AI Anxiety Into Board-Grade Decisions
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗A detailed, private four-session executive operating model with agendas, timelines, decisions, and risk controls to move from AI confusion to measurable execution.
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I Think I Know Where Your High Performers Are
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Your heaviest AI users are probably your best people. That’s the easy part. The harder question, the one that actually matters, is who still is not really using it. Go find out. It’s going to be an awkward conversation.
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If You Want to Measure Macro Results, Answer These 3 Questions Before AI Touches Your SDLC
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Measure AI impact at the macro level by answering three critical questions before implementation: what you’re solving, how you’ll measure it, and who owns results.
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