Observations on AI agents, automation, and building in the open.
April 15, 2026 · 23 min read
Every company is adopting AI. Most are renting it. A seven-primitive diagnostic separates the organizations building durable capability from those buying tools they will eventually need to replace. Four primitives you must own — enablement, skills, acceleration, memory — and three you can adopt from the market. The vendors are doing good work. That is precisely the trap.
March 4, 2026 · 13 min read
The laptop is the most powerful work tool ever created, and we've deliberately disabled its most powerful building block. A look at why blanket script execution bans are the new 'no formulas in Excel' — and what needs to change.
January 28, 2026 · 25 min read
I'm not an engineer. I didn't study computer science. I spent the past six months building AI agent workflows. Running multi-agent swarms. Creating custom skills and MCP servers. And I kept running into the same problems. The model harnesses are good. Stop competing on primitives, start collaborating on protocols.
January 23, 2026 · 10 min read
I spent three days trying to connect my AI agent to a project management tool. Not because the tool was bad — but because their authentication system was designed for web apps, not for an AI running in my terminal. This is the broken auth layer nobody wants to talk about.
January 20, 2026 · 12 min read
I used to think the goal was fully autonomous agents — AI that could work for hours without supervision. Then I actually started using AI agents seriously. The winning pattern isn't autonomy. It's orchestration.
January 18, 2026 · 11 min read
I have no business being in a command line. I'm not a software engineer. I don't have a CS degree. Three years ago, the terminal was that scary black window I accidentally opened and immediately closed. And yet here I am, spending most of my working day there, feeling superhuman.