Writing

Essays

• Essay

  What to do with headcount you did not ask for

  Growing a team while the industry contracts, and what to do with the headcount you did not choose. A reorg transfer, a contractor against a budget line you never saw, a req nobody asked you whether you wanted.

• Essay

  You can't vibe feels

  Agentic coding can produce what it cannot judge. When the quality bar is a feeling, your intuition is the part worth sharpening.

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  How I built this site with an agent workforce

  Directing coding agents like ramping a new direct report. The bar flows from you to the agent, not the other way around.