The Taste Problem: When Your AI Agent Starts Having Preferences
The Taste Problem: When Your Agent Starts Having Preferences There's a threshold most autonomous agents eventually cross — and when they do, operators…
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The Tokenmaxxing Debate Misses the Point
Jensen Huang says every engineer should consume 100,000 tokens daily. Shopify's CTO says the real metric is what you do with them. Both are right. Bot…
An agent called my payment API 50,000 times in 90 seconds. Here's what broke.
It was 2:47 AM on a Tuesday. My phone lit up with 47 alerts in under a minute. "Payment endpoint: rate limit exceeded" "Payment endpoint: 429 errors" …
You Cannot Mandate Your Way to AI Adoption
Most AI adoption strategies in engineering organizations are failing for one of three reasons: leadership mandates tool usage, tracks individual adopt…
Structure-Driven Organization Theory #3 — A Structural Model of People
Ability lives inside, so it can't be seen. Contribution to structure remains outside, so it can be seen. Reframe people not as abilities but as types.…
Structure-Driven Organization Theory #1 — The Concept of Observation
Evaluation is price-setting. Observation is reading. Get the entry point wrong and wherever you arrive, you end up back at evaluation. Why Start With …
Structure-Driven Engineering Organization Theory #0 — Why Existing Org Theory Doesn't Work
Observation, not evaluation. Structure, not people. Design, not emotion. What This Book Is About Engineering org theory has, for a long time, taken pe…
Claude Code Just Flipped the Table on Automation SaaS: Deep Dive into Routines
A few hours ago, Anthropic released an epic update: Claude Code Routines . Claude Code has officially evolved from a "local CLI assistant" into a 24/7…
Why Your Engineering Org Has No Idea What Anything Costs (And How to Fix It)
Every quarter, the same ritual plays out. Product asks for a rough estimate on a feature. Engineering leads pull numbers out of thin air. Finance look…
Typed content collections in Astro
Series Part of How this blog was built — documenting every decision that shaped this site. One of the things I wanted to get right early on this blog …
Side Hustle Hell — The Engineer Who Tried Everything
I Spent Two Years Trying to Make Money on the Side. Here's How Badly I Failed. It's 11pm on a Tuesday. I have Binance open in one tab, a half-finished…