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.
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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- 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.
- 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.
- Raising Humans in an AI World What do you teach a three-year-old when the ground is shifting under everyone's feet?
- Why AI Can't Shop for You Yet The properties that matter most in fashion aren't properties of the product — they're properties of the relationship between the product and the person. No protocol fixes that.
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- Trails: A Pattern for Navigating Ideas Why I replaced a knowledge graph with curated reading paths, and what I found when I looked for prior art.
- Toward AI-Native Analytics for Personal Publishing An RFC for a small, legible analytics system — privacy-first, edge-native, AI-queryable — built on Cloudflare Workers.
- Learning to Take Up Space On the difference between disappearing and controlling — and the third thing that isn't either.