July 31, 2026 Understanding Is the New Bottleneck — and Your AI Agent Can Fix It

TL;DR: In AI coding the hard part is no longer writing the code, it is understanding the code the agent wrote well enough to keep steering. Geoffrey Litt’s framing is that the human job shifts from ve…

May 4, 2026 The Bottleneck Moved: What 10 Studies Say About AI Developer Productivity

The Pattern I Keep Seeing Every few weeks, a customer asks me the same question: “We rolled out AI coding tools to 500 engineers. Why aren’t we shipping faster?” I wrote about this a month ago. The da…

April 22, 2026 From Cloud-Native to AI-Native: What Actually Changes

The Fifteen-Year Echo Fifteen years apart. Same stage. Different world. In 2010, Adrian Cockcroft stood on the QCon stage and told the audience that Netflix was running its entire business on a public…

April 20, 2026 The Protocol We Should Have Built for Humans

Namaste from 6,165 Meters I just summited Imja Tse (Island Peak, 6,165 meters) in Nepal. No Slack, no email, no MCP servers crashing in the background. Just ice, thin air, and the kind of clarity that…

April 1, 2026 AI Coding Productivity: 10%, Not 10x

The Number Nobody Wants to Hear A few weeks ago, I wrote about running my entire workday through an AI agent [1], meetings, research, CRM, content creation. Eight hours of productive work, not a singl…