Software Engineering Excellence, in practice. Field notes on building, leading, and shipping in the AI-native era.
Jun 6, 2026
The discipline that survives AI-native development isn't the instructions you give. It's the stops the machine can't talk its way past.
Why I built a gate to stop my AI from committing code, and what it taught me when it failed.
May 24, 2026
Is AI-Native Development Redesigning the Software Assembly Line?
May 20, 2026
The Monolith Just Got Expensive in a New Way
May 9, 2026
In AI-native development, the spec is the unit of work. The code is downstream. Here's what that actually means for engineering teams.
May 2, 2026
I built a production-ready mobile app in 30 hours—a project that typically requires a 3-person squad and 6 weeks. It wasn't the AI that did the heavy lifting; it was the engineering discipline.
