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Lead Time Is the Wrong Half
Most engineering velocity metrics start the clock at the commit. A public agent forced us to start it at the report.
AI as the Great Filter
Engineering depth was a nice-to-have. Now it's the thing that decides who survives.
Experience Isn't the Tax. Identity Is.
Jaya Gupta's piece on AI rewiring decision-making is right about the diagnosis. It mis-attributes the variable.
AI Will Create More Jobs. Just Not For Everyone.
Jevons was right. The paradox has a door policy.
Your 'AI-First' Engineering Org Probably Isn't
Bolting AI onto your workflow isn't AI-first. Here's what is.
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2026-05-18There's a new way to dodge accountability and it sounds like science.
2026-05-15This isn't fresh news. The trend of high-profile CTOs leaving C-suite roles to take IC seats at Anthropic has been build
2026-05-14Run your AI agent in a DM and one person learns from it. Run it in a public channel and the whole team does.
2026-05-13Anthropic just put their entire Claude curriculum online. Free. With certificates.
2026-05-09Quietly mirrored every essay I've written to Substack over the last few months. The site is still the canonical home. Th
2026-05-08AI is everywhere. Agents inside products are still rare.
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