Thoughts on AI implementation, engineering leadership, and building teams
AI isn't coming for workers in general. It's coming for the roles built around tracking, reporting, and coordinating. Here's the 6-question rubric I use before opening any new role — and an interactive tool to try it yourself.
May 25, 2026
AI ThinkingAI generates layouts. Expert designers build arguments. The gap between a site that looks professional and one that actually persuades has a name — and a price.
May 19, 2026
AI ThinkingEvery AGI claim is built on benchmark performance. But design requires judgment, intent, empathy, and cultural reasoning — capabilities benchmarks don’t test and current AI doesn’t possess. Design is the canary in the coal mine.
May 16, 2026
AI ThinkingInstead of rules for AI, we need habits for ourselves. Three practices for engineers who use AI every day: don’t personify the model, don’t skip verification, and don’t outsource responsibility.
May 10, 2026
AI & EngineeringEvery developer uses AI coding tools now. But most teams haven’t built the processes to use them well. Seven rules from a year of AI-assisted development at scale.
April 8, 2026
Engineering LeadershipSix months of tracking which engineering skills are gaining value and which are losing it. The patterns surprised me—not because AI was changing things, but because of what was changing and what wasn’t.
March 15, 2026