2026
- Your AI Pair Programmer Is Playing Single-Player
TL;DR: I run what looks like a small team of agents — a backlog of delegated tasks, subagents for research and drafting, a whole operating model for handing work to machines. It feels collaborative. …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …