Articles
16 articlesLong-form essays on AI, engineering, and the judgment that doesn't automate.
Two Features, One Contract
BridgePort 3.0 shipped a Terraform provider and an MCP server. Most of the work went into the API contract they both depend on.
The Moat That Walks Out the Door
Part three. If the moat is the judgment in your team's heads, then the moat can quit. What it takes to keep that judgment from leaving with the people who hold it.
Rent the Loop, Build the Moat
Part two. If the harness is the moat, here's where the line sits between what you rent, what you build, and the discipline that keeps it yours.
The Harness Is the Moat
The model is the part everyone benchmarks. The reliability layer around it is the part that actually ships.
The Real AI Skill Isn't Prompting. It's System Design.
Most AI training teaches the wrong half of the job.
Building the Road to Production, Again
The SDLC patterns that scaled three people to 400 deployments transfer cleanly to agentic engineering. The detection assumption underneath them doesn't.
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.
Two Months Later, My AI Team Stopped Being a Pipeline
What changed when a 12-agent feature factory grew a nervous system.
Every Company Is Three Things. AI Just Made That Obvious.
Expert knowledge, tribal knowledge, and the software that stitches them together. Document the first two and you can rebuild how you work from scratch.
Pain Gets You In The Door. Curiosity Builds Everything Else
Why organizations keep treating AI adoption as a pain problem — and why that's only half the answer.
Is SaaS Dead?
No. But the version of SaaS most people are selling might be.
AI Can Write Code. Coordinating AI Agents Is the Actual Hard Part.
Building a full-stack SaaS platform with a 12-agent orchestration system using Claude Code custom agents.