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I write about the intersection of engineering leadership, platform strategy, enterprise AI, and hands-on software building. Here is where to start depending on why you showed up.

For engineering leaders

Leading teams, creating clarity, and navigating change — without pretending every tool is magic.

The Agentic SDLC: Uniting the AI Tool Sprawl
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.
17 min read
Pipeline-First Is Not a DevOps Initiative - It's a Culture Shift.
Everyone sells pipeline-first delivery as a best practice. Remove access. Route through automation. Enforce consistency. What the slide deck leaves out is the part that actually determines whether this works.
6 min read
Strip the Assumptions: What Enterprise AI Adoption Actually Is
Most enterprise conversations about GenAI are arguments about assumptions nobody has questioned. Here is what stays when you strip everything else away.
6 min read
Yesterday's Feature Is Today's Bug
Every long-tenured engineering organization inherits decisions that made sense once and make everything harder now. On building IT strategy that outlasts the people who built it — without freezing the org in amber.
5 min read
The Companies Spending the Most on AI Have the Most to Gain From Convincing You It Will Take Your Job
The AI-and-jobs conversation gets framed as either inevitability or competition. Both frames are incomplete — and both conveniently align with the interests of the companies selling the technology. A third reading of what's actually happening to work.
3 min read

For builders experimenting with AI

The hands-on side of AI-assisted development, local models, and modern software workflows.

For platform and cloud leaders

Platform engineering, DevOps operating models, developer experience, and the guardrails that actually ship.

For people who want to understand how I lead

How I think about work, teams, and staying close to the craft.

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The best way to follow along is the blog, RSS, or LinkedIn. I write when I have something useful to say, which is better than writing because the algorithm looked hungry.

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For engineering leaders

The Agentic SDLC: Uniting the AI Tool Sprawl

Pipeline-First Is Not a DevOps Initiative - It's a Culture Shift.

Strip the Assumptions: What Enterprise AI Adoption Actually Is

Yesterday's Feature Is Today's Bug

The Companies Spending the Most on AI Have the Most to Gain From Convincing You It Will Take Your Job

For builders experimenting with AI

From Copy-Paste to Skill: What Thousands of AI Coding Sessions Taught Me About Guardrails

Open Weights, Real Stakes: Running Gemma 4 31B Locally

Eleven Years, One Week, and an AI Co-Pilot: Rebuilding TravelTimes for iOS 26.4

From iOS to Android in a Weekend: How I Used Claude Code to Build a Complete App Without Writing a Single Line of Code

How I Built a Production Notification System for TravelTimes in One Day with Claude Code

For platform and cloud leaders

Pipeline-First Is Not a DevOps Initiative - It's a Culture Shift.

The Dark Factory Model for AI-Driven Software Development

Frontier Models, Small Language Models, and a New Middle Path

The Rise of MCP Servers: Why Every Developer Will Have a Personal AI Toolchain

What worked in 2010 is our blueprint for the AI-infused future

For people who want to understand how I lead

When Winning Teams Lose: A Ferrari Leadership Lesson

When Winning Feels Like Losing: Leadership Lessons from McLaren’s F1 Drama

The Art of Enough: Why Minimalism Matters in Software Engineering

Getting Better at Getting Better in 2026

10 Years Later: A Journey of Continuous Learning Through Side Projects

Keep in touch

Start Here

For engineering leaders

The Agentic SDLC: Uniting the AI Tool Sprawl

Pipeline-First Is Not a DevOps Initiative - It's a Culture Shift.

Strip the Assumptions: What Enterprise AI Adoption Actually Is

Yesterday's Feature Is Today's Bug

The Companies Spending the Most on AI Have the Most to Gain From Convincing You It Will Take Your Job

For builders experimenting with AI

From Copy-Paste to Skill: What Thousands of AI Coding Sessions Taught Me About Guardrails

Open Weights, Real Stakes: Running Gemma 4 31B Locally

Eleven Years, One Week, and an AI Co-Pilot: Rebuilding TravelTimes for iOS 26.4

From iOS to Android in a Weekend: How I Used Claude Code to Build a Complete App Without Writing a Single Line of Code

How I Built a Production Notification System for TravelTimes in One Day with Claude Code

For platform and cloud leaders

Pipeline-First Is Not a DevOps Initiative - It's a Culture Shift.

The Dark Factory Model for AI-Driven Software Development

Frontier Models, Small Language Models, and a New Middle Path

The Rise of MCP Servers: Why Every Developer Will Have a Personal AI Toolchain

What worked in 2010 is our blueprint for the AI-infused future

For people who want to understand how I lead

When Winning Teams Lose: A Ferrari Leadership Lesson

When Winning Feels Like Losing: Leadership Lessons from McLaren’s F1 Drama

The Art of Enough: Why Minimalism Matters in Software Engineering

Getting Better at Getting Better in 2026

10 Years Later: A Journey of Continuous Learning Through Side Projects

Keep in touch