Software is no longer scarce. Judgment is.

I build systems, interfaces, and identities that survive AI abundance.

This is a space for thinking about judgment, systems, and design in an era where execution is cheap and discernment isn’t.

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March 13, 2026

Your Infrastructure Spec Already Moved Into Your Code

Infrastructure config is collapsing into application code — the same pattern as build tooling a decade ago. Void showed us the destination. The question is whether you want to ride the platform or steal the pattern.

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February 28 What's Left: Software Engineering in the Agent Era When anyone can spin up a coding agent and ship something workable, what actually matters? Not the word soup — the real answer.
February 27 Your Vault, Your Rules: Password Managers, Sovereignty, and Agents On the quiet ethos connecting Buttercup, Enpass, pass, and VeraCrypt — and why it matters more now that AI agents need your credentials too.
February 19 Pervasive AI: What Happens When Your Assistant Never Logs Off I've spent a month running a personal AI agent on a Mac Mini. The technology works. The promises don't — at least not the way we were told they would.
February 19 Raising Humans in an AI World What do you teach a three-year-old when the ground is shifting under everyone's feet?

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The Frontend Testing Gap March 14 Backend testing is a solved problem. Frontend testing for stateful, streaming, visual UIs is not. That's exactly where AI coding agents are generating the most code.
I Don't Know How to Interview Engineers Anymore March 10 What interviewing looks like when AI can write the code but not make the call — and why the same break is happening in every field that used output as proof of understanding.
Trails: A Pattern for Navigating Ideas March 1 Why I replaced a knowledge graph with curated reading paths, and what I found when I looked for prior art.