The Archive

Everything I've written so far.

2026

6 posts

  1. Buying AI is easy. Making it pay the bills is another story.

    We rushed to buy the tools. We forgot to do the messy work of operational redesign.

  2. The End of Manual Review: Why Frontier Models are Shattering Our Security Metrics

    Next-generation AI is finding vulnerabilities that have been hidden for decades. The phrase "audited by a senior engineer" no longer guarantees anything.

  3. The Battle for AI Dominance: The Resurgence of OpenAI and a Stumbling Anthropic

    Anthropic was the top contender for a couple of months. However, in the AI race, it takes more than a story, you need capabilities, capacity, and speed to deploy your solutions.

  4. The end of all-you-can-eat buffet: Why AI is becoming a luxury

    The AI business model met reality: sustaining it costs too much.

  5. How We Built an AI-Powered Vulnerability Fixer

    When manual dependency bumps became a weekly time sink, we built a CLI tool that uses strict AI patching to go from "vulnerability detected" to "PR ready for review".

  6. What Communicating at GitHub Actually Feels Like

    The corporate blog tells you the principles. Here is a look from the inside at how you actually survive in a hyper-async, text-first culture.

2025

3 posts

  1. AI Won't Take Your Job. But a Developer Using It Will.

    The internet is panicking about AI replacing software engineers. These are my thoughts on this.

  2. Ditching Grammarly: How to Run a Privacy-First Spellchecker Locally

    When corporate security blocked my grammar tool, I had to build a local, open-source alternative. Here is how to set it up.

  3. Surviving the Remote Grind: 4 Unspoken Rules for Asynchronous Work

    Why your endless Zoom meetings and Slack pings are killing productivity, and how to actually get things done.

2023

2 posts

  1. Your Pull Requests Are Documentation (You Just Don't Know It Yet)

    Why a well-written PR can save you from digging through old code six months later.

  2. Scrum: When "Agile" Became Our Biggest Bureaucracy

    How a framework designed for speed ended up filling our calendars with meetings, fake estimates, and the illusion of control.