Practitioner essays on building production software with AI agents.

You gave your engineers AI tools and skipped the governance conversation. Now your PRs are tripling, your review queue is drowning, and nobody can tell the good code from the generated garbage. You did not adopt AI. You built a slop factory.

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.

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.

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.

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.