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When the Architect Picks Up the Hammer
Something shifts when a senior technologist stops directing software to be built and starts building it himself, with AI as the pair. After four decades in software and twenty years away from the keyboard, the distance between intent and implementation finally collapsed. This is what that felt like, and what it revealed about experience, craft, and the future of building
The Decline of the Org Chart
For most of the last century, the challenge of organizing large groups of people around shared work produced a consistent answer: the hierarchy. Not because anyone designed it to be optimal, but because it solved five distinct coordination problems at once, and nothing simpler could do the same. Those problems are now separable. The structure built to solve them all at once is beginning to come apart, unevenly and in ways most commentary misses.
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The Return of the Builder
Intent, clarity, and the craft of building software when implementation gets cheap.
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The Self-Driving Enterprise
How AI is reshaping enterprise software, from ambient ERP to autonomous workflows.
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My Life with AI
A personal narrative of building alongside machines, from a TRS-80 to today.
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Random Thoughts from the Trenches
Software craft, leadership, estimation, and whatever else is on my mind.
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