BUSINESS · 6 POSTS
AI, pointed at the business.
Building and running companies with AI in the loop. Leadership, engineering and the hard calls, from twenty years of shipping.
Building and running companies with AI in the loop. Leadership, engineering and the hard calls, from twenty years of shipping.
My stack used to assume I was at the desk. The useful tools now keep going when I'm not. Markdown in Obsidian, synced to GitHub. A bot with its own computer. That's the filter.
AI makes it tempting to hire fewer junior developers. That might save time now and create a much bigger problem later.
AI can make parts of software delivery much faster. Clients should benefit, but that doesn't mean every project suddenly costs half as much.
We blame engineers for messy code. But tech debt is usually a symptom of decisions made (or avoided) higher up.
The AI gold rush has created a new breed of consultant. Some are brilliant. Most are winging it. Here's how to tell the difference.
Scaling a mobile team takes more than tech skills. Here's what I've learnt about leadership the hard way.