Practitioner essays on building production software with AI agents.

Your engineering team reports a 30% velocity improvement from AI tooling. Your CFO sees 5% on the P&L. The gap, millions per year, is sitting in your value stream, visible to anyone who picks up a marker. A whiteboard and a Tuesday afternoon will show you exactly where the money goes.

This is the third time your company has tried to fix the monolith. The first two attempts cost millions and changed nothing. AI agents make the third attempt possible, but only if the person leading it has actually done this before. Here is how to tell in ninety seconds.

Your 2025 AI decisions shape your 2028 reality. Learn why waiting for clarity is the riskiest strategy and how to build for capabilities that don’t exist yet.

Technology executives: the skills that got you here won’t keep you here. A frank letter about adapting your leadership for the AI-native era.

Everyone talks about autonomous AI development. Norman is actually building it. A system of agents that predicts what players want, builds a browser game, ships it, measures it, and iterates, no human in the product decision loop. Here are the rules.

Mid and late-career developers: AI isn’t here to replace you. But developers who use AI will replace those who don’t. Here’s how to adapt.