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All essays tagged ai-strategy.
For twenty-six years, the full rewrite was the cardinal sin of software engineering. Then one engineer ported half a million lines of Bun from Zig to Rust in eleven days. The taboo was never about code. It was a price tag, and for systems whose intent lives in an executable oracle, the price just collapsed.
★Satya Nadella named a real problem: AI workflows generate valuable learning exhaust from proprietary context and corrections. He is right about the asset. My practitioner's edit is simple: own the learning loop, not necessarily the model.
★AI has made generation cheap. The durable advantage now belongs to teams that can encode judgment into gates that verify whether the work should ship.
A government order took Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline. The lesson for enterprise AI is architecture: portability gets you out, verification gets you out safely.
★Build, WWDC, two confidential S-1 filings, and a tiered frontier model launch hit in the same two weeks. The agent became the interface just as the invoice arrived.
★Enterprise AI is entering its accounting phase. The winners will measure verified outcomes, not just tokens, subscriptions, or generated output.
★Most AI reorgs open with a headcount model. The better sequence redesigns workflows, decision rights, ownership, and evaluation loops first, then lets the org chart follow the work it is meant to describe.
Agent loops let the model pick the next step. Workflows invert that. Code owns the control flow; the model owns the judgment inside each step. Here is the TypeScript file I am running today, type-checked against the live SDK, and the honest answer to whether you should build this now or wait for the official tool.
★My thesis is that as agents get better at execution, the primary constraint for organizations shifts from technical production to the human-led framing of problems.
★Viral prompt threads borrow the language of science without the rigor. Here's a four-question code review for any prompt, plus a worked example that shows the gap between sounding authoritative and being right.
A field report on building Inkwell, a pure-CSS design system that turns taste into repeatable constraints for people, teams, and coding agents.
A year of writing, one argument, and a working theory of where software is going
★Code used to be the durable asset. In an agentic SDLC, that changes. Code becomes the regeneratable output of a system that runs on something more important: a clear, versioned, reviewable specification. That shift changes what engineering organizations invest in, how they govern delivery, who they hire, and what they actually ship.
★A weekend home-networking project became a practical lesson in AI-assisted reasoning, documentation, guardrails, and engineering judgment.
Anthropic's new design tool does not threaten senior designers. It threatens the apprenticeship that made them senior.
Every tool in your product development life cycle is now an AI agent trying to do everything. Here is how to stop the chaos, draw the right boundaries, and build an orchestrated pipeline that actually works.
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