The Org Chart Stopped Routing
A five-person organisation has always operated on a single principle, which is that there is nobody to hand it to.
Tag: AI
The jagged frontier is permanent. Build like it.
The jagged frontier is the observation that LLM capability is not a smooth surface with sometimes unexpected behavior.
You Cannot Out-Build Your Grader
The idea of a software factory is old and keeps coming back. Every decade or so someone proposes that we stop making software like artisans.
The End of Renting the Small Things
I built a Trello replacement with a few prompts. Why? Because I needed just a few features - not the while suite.
The Jobs AI Will Hit First: What Karpathy’s New Data Tells Us About $3.7 Trillion in Exposed Wages
Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI chief and OpenAI co-founder, just released an open-source tool that scores every major U.S.
Departments Are Albums: Agentic AI and the Coming Corporate Unbundling
In 2000, the music industry had a problem it misdiagnosed. Napster was stealing albums. The fix was obvious: stop the theft, protect the bundle.
The state of AI in 2025
By the end of 2025, arguments about whether AI 'works' have quietly ended. The technology works well enough that 86% of professionals report time savings—yet 69% hide their use from colleagues. Not because AI fails, but because they fear judgment, job loss, or simply getting assigned more work for the same pay. The real questions are no longer about capability but about who is using AI, for what, under what constraints, and at what cost.
The AI Paradox at Work: Why LLMs Don’t Just Automate Tasks — They Undermine the Job Map
In early 2024, McDonald's made a quiet announcement: after three years of testing AI-powered drive-through ordering across more than 100 U.S.
The Probabilistic Revolution: How AI is Making Software Engineering More Like “Real” Engineering
For decades, software engineers have endured a peculiar form of professional imposter syndrome. While their colleagues in mechanical, civil, and chemical…
The Web’s Old Guard Isn’t Chasing AGI—They’re Building the New Infrastructure
Christina Wodtke, veteran product designer and Stanford lecturer, captured something profound recently: "The old timers who built the early web are coding…