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Brain dumps, mostly. Thoughts that needed somewhere to go. Unstructured by nature, shaped with AI help. The ideas are mine, the readability is a team effort. Read it like a conversation starter, not a finished argument.

There’s a series running right now: Left of the Loop, a working mental model for how AI shifts the engineering process left, brain-dumped a post at a time.

• Accept the Fate 2026-10-08
  • Personal
  • Left of the Loop
• I Can't Unsee It 2026-10-05
  • Personal
  • Left of the Loop
• Tuition Paid in Train Tickets 2026-10-01
  • Personal
  • Career
  • OpenFeature
  • Left of the Loop
• Spec-Driven Only Solves One Part of the Problem 2026-09-25
  • Agentic Systems
  • Left of the Loop
  • Software Engineering
• Left Outside the Loop 2026-09-24
  • Personal
  • Left of the Loop
  • Software Engineering
• Still Dancing 2026-09-18
  • Personal
  • Career
  • OpenFeature
  • Left of the Loop
• A Full Dance Card 2026-08-21
  • Personal
  • Career
  • OpenFeature
  • Left of the Loop
• The Phoenix 2026-07-26 When a team ends anyway, what do you choose to carry forward?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Hestia 2026-07-24 What keeps shared understanding alive after you've built it?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Pheme 2026-07-22 How does a decision reach everyone who wasn't in the room?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Boule 2026-07-20 How do you run a Spec Session across more than one team?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Gymnasion 2026-07-18 How does a team learn what an agent can really do before betting a spec on it?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Metron 2026-07-16 What should you measure once output is cheap?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Mimesis 2026-07-14 How do juniors learn when the agent writes the code?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• Finding the Rhythm 2026-07-13
  • Personal
  • Career
  • OpenFeature
  • Left of the Loop
• The Kybernetes 2026-07-12 How do you see into and steer an autonomous agent loop?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • OpenTelemetry
  • OpenFeature
• Who's on the Hook? 2026-07-10 When agents write the code, who's accountable for what ships?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Leadership
• Nobody's Walking Over to a Desk 2026-07-08 What broke when walking over to ask became asking the agent?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Oikonomos 2026-07-06 Who's stewarding the budget an agent loop spends?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• Still on the Dancefloor 2026-07-05
  • Personal
  • Career
  • OpenFeature
• The Astrolabe 2026-07-04 Which layer does each AI tool actually belong in?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Trireme 2026-07-02 What's the smallest team structure a Spec Session still needs?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• Program to an Interface 2026-07-02
  • Software Engineering
  • Leadership
  • Organization Design
• The Agora 2026-06-30 What actually happens inside a Spec Session?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Alexandria Problem 2026-06-28 When people stop writing the code, where does the shared knowledge go?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Ever-Agreeing Genie 2026-06-26 What breaks when your only reviewer is built to agree with you?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The End of the Craftsman? 2026-06-24 Does craftsmanship still matter when agents write the code?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The PO is Dead, Long Live the PO 2026-06-22 What happens to the product owner when agents do the implementing?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• A Fool with a Tool is Still a Fool 2026-06-20 If one person and an agent can ship, why keep the team?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• The Wrong End of the Problem 2026-06-18 Where does AI actually belong in your development process?
  • Agentic Systems
  • Platform Engineering
  • Software Engineering
• Somewhere to Put the Ideas 2026-06-18
  • Blog
  • Personal
• Dancing the Limbo 2026-06-14
  • Personal
  • Career
  • OpenFeature
• Adaptive Observability. The System Decides What to Watch. 2026-06-12
  • Observability
  • OpenTelemetry
  • OpenFeature
  • Agentic Systems
• The Reaction Path Doesn't Need a Dashboard 2026-06-10
  • Observability
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Agentic Systems
  • SaaS
• We Don't Build Software Anymore 2026-06-08
  • Agentic Systems
  • OpenTelemetry
  • OpenFeature
  • Platform Engineering
  • Observability