Two Decades of Shipping Code
Developer, builder, and AI-native consultant. Writing about code, shipping software, and the lessons that come from doing it for 20+ years.
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View all posts →My AI Coding Pipeline Has a Team of Rivals. It Rejects Code on Purpose.
Lincoln staffed his cabinet with the people who wanted his job. The A(i)-Team plugin staffs its pipeline with agents whose only job is to reject bad work, capped so nothing loops forever.
Read the full breakdown →The Harness Tax
A `claude -p` call bills for its own furniture before your prompt even loads, and the fix that buys 4.4x on a quick call turns out to be almost worthless on a long agentic run, because they're two different taxes.
Read the full breakdown →I Had 40 Engineers and AI Tools. Here's Why Adoption Still Stalled.
An engineering director's honest story of failed AI adoption: stalled workflows, review bottlenecks, and how to build an AI workflow your dev team will actually use.
Read the full breakdown →Topics
AI-Assisted Development
Building production software with AI agents that deliver real, shippable code.
React
Component architecture, state management, and patterns that scale.
Scaling
Taking systems from prototype to production at scale without losing velocity.
Building in Public
Sharing the journey of shipping software, lessons learned, and what actually works.
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