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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Your AI Token Burn Is Not the Problem. The Work Is.
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Download EPUB ↓Your token burn is not the problem. It is the first invoice honest enough to show that your engineering work has no value discipline.
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Find the Ceiling
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗You are sitting in the Q3 budget review. The VP of agile transformation just got taken apart over the agile coach line. Cloud migration is six quarters late. The chief product officer is presenting another reorg and another offsite. You are up next, and for the first time in three years of these meetings you have real numbers. The winning numbers. The kind that beat expectations. The teams that doubled their month-over-month spend on Gen AI for building software shipped considerably more measurable value than the teams that did not. You are about to ask the room for more money. You are going to call it finding the ceiling.
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Goodnight to Epics, Stories and Features: A Feature A Day is the New Normal
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗The sprint is dead. AI-native teams ship features daily, not fortnightly. Learn how to adapt your agile processes for the new velocity.
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Exploring Developer Happiness in the AI-SDLC
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Exploring what developer happiness looks like when AI handles the tedious work. Research and insights on the emotional side of AI adoption.
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Your heroes are outdated. Your influencers are underqualified. The people you need are busy.
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Download EPUB ↓The old software heroes explain the last era. The loudest influencers explain the demo. The builders answering customers in public are the ones closest to the truth.
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The People Conversation
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Every executive conversation I have starts the same way. Tooling budgets. Adoption dashboards. Training roadmaps. All of it oriented around the technology. None of it oriented around the people. Anywhere from twenty minutes in to the relationship or 20 months, someone asks the real question. How do we know our people can actually do this? […]
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Elon Musk Started Cutting Twitter Before ChatGPT. Your Company Will Take Ten Years.
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Elon Musk started cutting Twitter before ChatGPT launched. Most companies will spread the same AI-assisted operating change across a decade because that is what executive incentives reward.
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Should You Take That Job or Should You Stay
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗A comprehensive guide for developers weighing an offer, leaders trying to retain talent, and executives wondering why their best people keep leaving. The diagnostic that reveals whether an engineering org has actually adopted AI or just bought the tools.
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Why Are You Deprioritizing the Most Important Training Your Org Will Ever Get?
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗You told the board AI would compress delivery cycles by 30%. Then you scheduled the training for 3 PM Friday. This is the private conversation your peers will not have with you.
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The Use Case Is Building Software and the Best Practice Is Today
Executive Deck ↗Exec summary ↗Listen ↗Stop asking about AI use cases. The use case is your entire SDLC. Learn why executives must build with AI tools themselves to lead the transformation.
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