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From the field, not the slide deck.

AI, operating models, and how technical work is changing, written by someone still doing it.

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If Agents Write the Code, Who Says What Good Is?

Sep 17, '26

Agents close the distance between the need and the software. That surfaces a harder job: expressing how you know the need was met. You move the complexity, you do not remove it, and where good resists being written down, the human stays.

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The Best Software Is Built Closest to the Need

Sep 11, '26

Give a salesperson a way to build their own tool and they often build a better one than the team that builds software for a living. Not better engineered. Better fit. The reason is distance, and agents are about to change what that distance costs.

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RAG Was Never Semantic Search

Aug 18, '26

RAG and semantic search fused into one word. Pulling them apart surfaces the real question: where in your pipeline does anything actually think?

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02 — Bio

In brief

I build things, and somewhere along the way I started leading the people who build things. I care more about how work actually gets done than about how it looks in a status report. This is where I think out loud about it.

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