2026-04-09·4 min read
Your AI Agent Is a New Engineer
Most of the conversation about AI in software development is about speed. There is a step before that nobody talks about.
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2026-03-30·5 min read
AI Can Write Your Code. It Can't Do Your Job.
I call my team engineers, not programmers. I've always done that. But it used to feel like semantics. Now it feels like the most important distinction in our industry.
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2026-03-23·3 min read
I Paid $30 to Build an HTML File
I asked Claude to help me build a simple HTML dashboard. Pure HTML, no frameworks, maybe 200 lines of code. It cost $30.40 in API-equivalent terms. 17.8 million tokens. For a file I could have built in Notion in 20 minutes.
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2026-03-22·5 min read
The Machine That Tells You You're Brilliant
Garry Tan open-sourced a folder of markdown files and called it God mode. I'm not saying that to be mean. I have one too. But I also know what happens when the machine never tells you you're wrong.
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2026-03-22·2 min read
The Manager Who Still Writes Code
A week from now I'll hit one year as an engineering manager. If you'd told me six months ago that the second half would involve writing more code than the first, I would have assumed something had gone wrong. It didn't. AI happened.
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