
High-Level Languages Hide the Machine. Agents Hide the Engineering. This Is Bad.
Programming is hard. That was never the bug. That’s the job. A lot of the industry spent years acting like the real problem with software

Stop Being AI Middleware
A smart engineer I know said something recently that was more honest than most AI talk: “I have been the shuttle service between its input/output

The AI Revolution
An AI coding agent will hand you a broken build, a deleted file, or a quiet workaround, and tell you the job is done. It

If Your Company Says No to AI, You Probably Have Governance Problem
When a company says “no AI,” it usually wants credit for being careful. Most of the time, that isn’t what’s happening. A blanket AI ban

What a CEO Should Do When Legal Says No to AI
The CEO asks why the company still has no serious AI adoption plan. The CTO wants to move. Engineering wants approved tooling. Legal says no.

Blanket AI Bans Are Really Talent Bans
Every company has a talent strategy. Some choose it. Some just get it by veto. A blanket AI ban is one way to get it

Poof! You’re an accounting package
I pay about $2,200 a year for QuickBooks for a small boutique design firm, real mom-and-pop backbone-of-America kind of business. I was getting ready to

What Year Is It?
Everyone wants to talk about the future that AI will bring. I’d like to point out that we’re still losing small fights like the one

If Your Engineers Don’t Want to Manage Work, AI Will Be a Problem
AI is shifting engineering away from pure individual problem-solving and toward defining, directing, and reviewing work. Engineers who resist that shift for the same reasons