Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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9 Survival Skills for the Agentic Engineering Era
Karpathy named the next thing after vibe coding 'agentic engineering.' This post unpacks the nine skills engineers need when the work is now telling agents what to do, with the practice routines that build each one.
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AI Is Only as Smart as You Are
Same AI, very different results. Stripe's data on 3,000 engineers, MIT's EEG study, and Stanford's sycophancy research point to one answer: AI is not just as smart as you, it is a mirror that tells you what you want to hear.
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In an Era That Doesn't Read Code, What Should an Engineer Read?
Anthropic's research found that developers who used AI learned 17 percent less. So why do people using the same tool end up with completely different results? AI is a mirror.
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How My AI Agent Jarvis Became My Second Brain — A Real OpenClaw Story
I built a 24/7 AI agent named Jarvis on the OpenClaw framework, then taught it 'me' through an Obsidian ontology. A field report covering cron-job automation, todo unification, multi-agent expansion, and even diet tracking.
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How to Read Tech Articles: A Three-Pass Method
An efficient three-pass method for reading the tech blogs, RFCs, and newsletters that pile up every day. I adapt S. Keshav's Three-Pass Method for tech articles, and cover how to keep yourself in the driver's seat as a reader in the AI era.
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Give Claude Code Wings: Introducing Superpowers
Install Superpowers on Claude Code and a 7-stage workflow runs automatically, from clarifying questions to TDD to code review. Setup, the meta-skill, and how to build your own skills.
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Reading 'The Obstacle is the Way' (with a side of Meditations)
A reflection on Ryan Holiday's 'The Obstacle is the Way' and Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations', and the Stoic posture for facing failure and despair.
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There's No Future for an Organization That Can't Win
What I learned from running a startup as CEO and serving as CTO. An honest confession about the leader going it alone, teams that only do what they're told, and what happens to organizations that never define what winning means.
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MVP in the AI Era: Product Lessons from Linear
I read through Linear founder Tuomas Artman's MVP playbook and tried to figure out what actually matters when AI has stripped product development down to almost nothing.
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F1 Leadership: What Did James Vowles Actually Do? An Engineer's Take
I broke down how James Vowles revived Williams, the perennial last-place team. How he changed a team that managed 20,000 parts in Excel, why a no-blame culture and a long-term view matter, and how he convinced Carlos Sainz. Behind the results (a confirmed 5th in the 2025 Constructors' standings and two podiums), there's a kind of leadership worth pulling apart.