Using AI Agents, Building Systems, and Engineering Leadership

I write about building software, engineering leadership, AI, and what worked in practice.

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The Hard Part of Building an Autonomous AI Teammate

Building a useful autonomous AI teammate is less about the chat interface and more about routing, trust, memory, governance, and workflow reliability. We built a marketing operator to understand this better.

The Org Chart After Agents

As agents move into real workflows, the org chart is coming out with the same boxes and different arrows: who depends on whom, where review time goes, and which skills matter more.

AI Made Everyone “Full-Stack.”

AI has expanded engineers’ reach across the stack but the winners will be the ones who can verify, debug, and operate systems end-to-end.

Build to Outlive

The real measure of engineering leadership isn't what you shipped. It's what keeps working after you leave.

The Leadership Pipeline

What changed when I moved from writing code to building a team that could make decisions without me.