AI Engineering
AI-First Engineering Isn't About Coding Faster
The biggest opportunity from AI is not generating more code. It is redesigning the engineering system around a world in which producing code is increasingly cheap.
2026-08-25 · 5 min
Insights
Notes on engineering systems
Leadership, architecture, AI engineering and delivery — written to make thinking reusable.
AI Engineering
AI increases the need for engineering discipline
Faster generation makes context, planning and verification more important — not optional.
2026-08-01 · 2 min
Engineering Leadership
Context before code
Most delivery friction is not a typing problem. It is a shared-understanding problem.
2026-07-15 · 2 min
AI Engineering
Why AI Increases the Need for TDD
When generation gets cheaper, verification becomes the scarce discipline that protects outcomes.
2026-08-10 · 2 min
Engineering Leadership
The Engineering Manager as Architect of Context
Your highest-leverage design work may be the context in which decisions get made.
2026-08-08 · 2 min
Engineering Effectiveness
DORA Metrics Should Be Signals, Not Targets
Used well, DORA opens system conversations. Used badly, it creates gaming and fear.
2026-08-05 · 2 min
AI Engineering
AI Agents Need an Engineering Operating Model
Agents without CONTEXT → AIM → EXECUTE → VERIFY → LEARN become expensive chaos generators.
2026-08-03 · 2 min