AI ships code.
You ship software.

A weekly, engineering-first newsletter about building with AI without hand-waving the hard parts: intent, architecture, security, and long-term maintenance.

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Intent over artifacts

Use AI to explore quickly, then write down intent: decisions, constraints, priorities, and tradeoffs.

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Lead the AI

Conventions, structure, and feedback loops that turn “fast” into “shippable” instead of “fragile”.

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Responsibility, not magic

AI accelerates creation, but it doesn’t own your risk, upgrades, incidents, or long-term maintenance.

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Systems thinking

Architecture, boundaries, failure modes, and operational reality—so the software survives contact with prod.

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Reliability loops

Tests, observability, and tight iteration cycles that keep AI output honest as the codebase grows.

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Engineering judgment

When the default stack is “whatever the model saw most,” you need principles to choose intentionally.

Weekly Newsletter

Short, opinionated essays on AI-assisted software engineering—focused on what actually breaks in production, and how to build systems you can own.

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