Left of the Loop: The Kybernetes
The kybernetes was the helmsman who steered a Greek ship, reading the wind and working the steering-oar to hold a course. The word is the root of two …
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Left of the Loop: Nobody’s Walking Over to a Desk
The most important step in the old process was never written down: the confused developer getting up, walking across the room, and asking. It worked p…
Left of the Loop: The PO is Dead, Long Live the PO
When I wrote about shifting the engineering process left — spec sessions, autonomous agents, humans reviewing output rather than writing code — a ques…
Left of the Loop: The Oikonomos
In an ancient Greek household, the oikonomos was the steward: the one trusted to manage the estate’s resources so the whole household prospered. The w…
Left of the Loop: The Astrolabe
An astrolabe doesn’t map every star. It gives you a way to find your position relative to the ones that hold still. That’s the instrument I reach for …
Left of the Loop: The Trireme
A trireme was the warship that made Athens a power in the Mediterranean — not for its size, but for its structure. Three banks of oars, a hundred and …
Left of the Loop: The Agora
The Athenian agora wasn't a building. It was an open space where citizens gathered to think in public — argument, trade, philosophy, policy, all happe…
Left of the Loop: The Ever-Agreeing Genie
Anthropic's engineers ship eight times more code than they did a few years ago. And they had to start scheduling lunches so people would talk to each …
Left of the Loop: The End of the Craftsman?
I noticed something a few months ago. I was talking less to my colleagues. Not because anything was wrong. I had a question, I described it to an AI, …
Left of the Loop: A Fool with a Tool is Still a Fool
"A fool with a tool is still a fool." — often attributed to Grady Booch I keep coming back to this quote when I watch teams adopt AI. In my last post …
The Wrong End of the Problem
The Wrong End of the Problem Every company wants AI in their development process right now. That part is clear. What's less clear is where they're put…
# MCP vs ACP: The Two Protocols Building the Nervous System of Industrial AI in 2026
Table of Contents The Integration Problem That Broke Industry 4.0 MCP: The Vertical Connection Layer How MCP Connects to Servers, Tools, and Databases…
Client-Side LLM Optimization Is Misunderstood
--- title: "Client-Side LLM Optimization Is Misunderstood" description: "Client-side LLM inference is a false fix for AI cost, latency, and security c…