productivity

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May 2026

"But if AI does it all, what's *my* job?"

On AI, mental load, and delegation

What you need to make an agent

I've been digging into agents for internal tooling and processes. Looking for how to scale without drowning in manual work. Here's what I found

April 2026

AI now writes 97% of my code. Here's what I learned

Forget the bullshit tips and tricks, just talk to it.

Watch people work

We talk a lot about outcomes over outputs and how engineers are supposed to get us over the water, not blindly build a bridge because someone asked for a bridge. But how do you do that in practice?

Frustration Driven Development

Frustration is your greatest engineering asset. What do you do the 5th time someone asks for the same damn thing yet again?

February 2026

In praise of the stacked pull request

How fast you do code review is how fast you do everything. Your PR queue is the leading indicator of team velocity. Stacked PRs can help.