Mark McCorkle — Writing Essays on engineering leadership in the age of AI. https://markamccorkle.com/ 2026-08-01T12:00:00Z Mark McCorkle mark@markamccorkle.com The best feature I ever shipped was a question https://markamccorkle.com/writing/what-if/ 2026-08-01T12:00:00Z 2026-08-01T12:00:00Z In 2008 I put an unexplained feature in a bowling app that showed people the game they could have bowled. Seventeen years later I understand what it actually was: a question rendered in software, and the same move matters more now that implementation is cheap. The tools were never the hard part https://markamccorkle.com/writing/the-tools-were-never-the-hard-part/ 2026-07-25T12:00:00Z 2026-07-25T12:00:00Z What I learned taking a 200-engineer division from zero to 80%+ sustained weekly agentic-tool use: adoption is an operating-model change, context is infrastructure, and the bottleneck moves.