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Essays on engineering leadership in the age of AI, written from practice, not prediction. Subscribe (Atom).

The best feature I ever shipped was a question — August 2026
A hidden feature in a 2008 bowling app showed people the game they could have bowled. Seventeen years later I understand what it actually was, and why the same move matters more now that implementation is cheap.
The tools were never the hard part — July 2026
What I learned taking a two-hundred-engineer division from zero to 80%+ sustained weekly agentic-tool use: adoption is an operating-model change, context is infrastructure, and the bottleneck moves.