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2 Years Featured

Why AI Builders Are Publishing, Not Shipping

AI builders are not shipping products. They are publishing probes. Creation is cheap, relevance is not. Like the 90s web, ideas go public before they harden. Shipping came later then, and it will again. For now, publishing is how signal forms.

Vibe Coding Featured

Scaling Gas Town: From Frontier to Production

Gas Town is one of the first real examples of multi-agent orchestration at scale: parallel workers, durable workflows, merge arbitration. It demonstrates the Time-to-Value Loop (Vibe → Forge → Mature) on the frontier. Production Town is what it takes to bring that power into organizations.

Testing the Invisible: How AI Forces DevOps and Data Onto the Center Stage

For most of my career, software has been the automation layer. We built software to automate work. We built software to replace manual processes. We built software to scale operations without scaling headcount. That was the game. But something subtle is happening now. Automation is shifting left. Not just into

Vibe Coding

Trusting AI Without Line-by-Line Review

AI can ship faster than humans can review, but the answer isn’t dropping rigor. It’s upgrading it: craft foundations, CI gates, safe environments, progressive delivery, observability, and rollback. Keep best practices. Shift trust from inspection to proof.

Vibe Coding

Vibing to Prod: Why DORA Misses the AI Inflection Point

DORA shows delivery improving, but AI’s biggest impact happens earlier. AI shifts value upstream into reasoning and decision making, where work is avoided before it exists. Vibing now produces production ready outcomes, moving rigor earlier and outside what DORA can see.

Vibe Coding

AI Did Not Change Software. It Revealed Its Shape.

A reflection on feedback, creativity, and modern software development.

Vibe to Value Featured

After Vibe Coding: What Developers Who Succeed With AI Do Differently

AI makes code cheap and judgment visible. Developers who succeed stop executing steps and start managing feedback loops. Ambiguity isn’t solved by better specs, but by exploring the system until clarity emerges.

Vibe Coding Featured

Why Vibe Coding Fails for Most Developers

Vibe coding exposes hidden gaps in articulation, reasoning, and feedback handling. This article shows why deterministic habits break nonlinear workflows and how to develop the capabilities that make dialogue-driven development reliable.

AI Augmentation

The AI Quant: How Vibe Engineering Outruns Automation

Most teams chase automation to cut costs and move faster, but the real advantage is augmentation. When humans and AI think together, output becomes exponential. Automation scales work; augmentation scales intelligence. The future belongs to those who amplify, not replace.

Coherence

Coherence: Where Intuition Meets Inference

When coherence appears, whether in neurons or in code, it feels like thought because it holds the same tension, compression balanced by recursion. The mind economizes, the loop reflects, and between them understanding flickers. This is the emergence of a thinking substrate.

Vibing to Production Featured

The New Grammar of Creation: How AI Is Changing the Way We Build

We used to write for compilers. Now we build through conversation. The future of engineering belongs to those fluent in the new grammar of creation. AI doesn’t replace developers. It reveals them.

AI Engineering

Is Context Management the New Memory Management?

From malloc to meaning: how decades-old instincts about memory management find new life in the age of context windows and retrieval graphs.

Vibing to Production

Vibing to Prod: Charting the Journey from Sparks to Systems

Most innovation dies in a branch called experiment/. We want ours to ship. Vibing to Prod is how we plan to get there. It's a journey from sandbox to signal, guided by FLUID loops. Turning GenAI speed into sustainable delivery without losing the magic that started it.

Better Bets

Better Bets, Not Bigger Burdens: Why "Agile+AI" Isn’t Delivering the Gains

Most teams are “doing agile” but really just running faster on old rails. Layering AI on top of that doesn’t deliver transformation — it just adds noise. Real gains come from rethinking org design and process flow so AI fuels iteration, not bigger burdens.

Better Bets

Better Bets, Not Bigger Burdens: Shaping Delivery with Specs, Prototypes, and Agent Factories

Exploring how specs, prototypes, and agent factories are reshaping delivery in the AI era. Specs shape work, prototypes teach through fast feedback, and agent factories collapse cycle time — together enabling better bets without bigger burdens.

Better Bets Featured

Better Bets, Not Bigger Burdens: How AI Redefines Delivery at the Edge

AI is not just about faster delivery; it is about making smarter bets. By blending innovation with execution, companies can turn ambiguity into clarity, reduce risks, and reshape product direction without adding bigger burdens to teams.

Better Bets Featured

Better Bets, Not Bigger Burdens: Rethinking AI-Accelerated Delivery

AI-assisted development isn’t about doing more. It’s about learning faster, failing safer, and placing smarter bets. Don’t burn your gains, instead invest them in discovery.

AI Augmentation Featured

AI and the Death of the Hero: A Jungian Guide to Letting Go of Control

As AI continues to reshape how we build and think, resistance remains strangely personal. Why do some people embrace the change while others cling to old ways? The answer may lie deeper than tooling or training it may live in our collective psyche.

Vibe Coding

AI-Assisted Development: Beyond Code Generation

AI-assisted development isn’t just about code generation. From debugging and scaffolding to test creation and doc writing, AI accelerates how we explore, explain, and execute ideas. Here are seven practical ways AI is quietly reshaping real developer workflows.

LLM as Judge

How LLMs Judge: 4 Essential Patterns for Smarter Agent Workflows

The LLM-as-a-Judge pattern originated in eval pipelines to assess output quality, but has since expanded into agent architectures. It now plays a central role in autonomous workflows critiquing outputs, enforcing standards, and triggering rework steps to ensure runtime quality control.

Vibe Coding

Learn Fast. Think Independently. F*** the Rules.

AI is reshaping software development. This piece challenges us to embrace the shift—away from rigid processes and toward fast, intent-driven workflows. It's a call to rethink how we build, lead, and ship in an era where AI isn’t just a tool, but part of the team.

Vibe Coding Featured

AI Is Step One. What Comes Next Changes Everything.

AI-assisted development isn’t the destination—it’s step one. Software is one of the most labor-intensive human creations, and AI is beginning to reduce that burden. But the real shift lies ahead: adaptive systems, dynamic governance, and automation that builds automation.

Vibe Coding Featured

AI Didn’t Kill Coding. It Killed Typing!

Typing was never the work—solving problems was. AI pair-programming skips boilerplate, letting devs focus on architecture, edge cases, and impact. Welcome to vibe coding, home of the 10× engineer.

LLMs Featured

Are We Just Language Models in Meatspace?

Maybe you’re not so different from an LLM. You just hallucinate with more confidence. This piece unpacks the “coherence trap,” why AI feels smarter than it is—and why that might reveal something uncomfortable about us.

Workforce

AI and the Vanishing Ladder: Rethinking Work in the Age of Automation

AI is erasing entry-level roles, gutting the talent ladder. Juniors aren’t learning, orgs lose future leaders, and inequality grows. To thrive, leaders must protect onramps, embrace hybrid roles, and invest in human development—not just automation.