Writing
Notes on engineering leadership, scaling systems, and what actually changes when agents write the code.
- Agile and Process Optimization
- AI, Automation & the New Engineering Landscape
- Effective Team Building
- Leadership & Culture in Engineering
- Managing Growth Challenges
- Mentorship, Growth & Human Skills
- Metrics and Measurement
- Product and Customer Feedback
- Scaling MVPs and Architectures
- Scaling Systems and Teams
- Transitioning from Corporate to Entrepreneurial Leadership
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A Dashboard Shows You the Agent. It Doesn’t Prove the Change.
Knowing which agents ran is useful. Being accountable for what they changed requires evidence that follows the work into production. A session record can tell you what an…
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The Gaps Agent-Scale Engineering Just Exposed
Coding agents can produce work faster than an organization can review and release it. When that happens, the constraint moves into the…
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Governance Is Getting Bundled Too. Your Evidence Shouldn’t Be.
I’ve been arguing that as code generation gets cheaper and orchestration becomes part of the tools we already use, governance is where…
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Generation Got Cheaper Again. Verification Didn’t.
An agent can finish a change in minutes and leave it waiting for review for two days. The generation was fast. The…
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Your Engineering Process Should Outlive Your Model Vendor
The past couple of weeks have stirred things up among the major players in frontier AI, and a few who would like…
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Digital Tools, Analog Soul: Modernizing Your Business Without Selling It Out
Walk into almost any long-standing business in my local stomping-ground of North County San Diego, or really any tight-knit community, and you…
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Loose Coupling Is a Survival Strategy
How abstraction, clear ownership, and designing for change help early-stage teams scale without collapsing under their own weight. Very early in my…
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The Mentorship Multiplier: How Teaching Others Clarifies Your Own Thinking
How mentoring made me a better leader. I did not set out early in my career to become a mentor. Looking back,…
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The Hidden Cost of Hero Culture in Engineering
Why high-performing teams need systems, not saviors. Early in my career, I worked with engineers I can only describe as forces of…