The Agentic Manifesto (v0.1)
A way of working with AI agents — the values and principles to guide better outcomes at the human-agent interface. A work in progress, because we're all still learning.
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Thoughts on technology, building, and the future.
Why Your Solo AI Powered Projects Feel Fast (And Your AI-Powered Software Team Doesn't)
Single player mode showed everyone what's possible. The question is whether teams will copy what makes it work, or just copy the speed and miss the system underneath.
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The App Store Moment for AI
Anthropic is winning the developer race right now. But it's fragile. If a better orchestration interface showed up tomorrow, most users would switch without thinking twice. The real strategic play...
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The LLM Isn't the Car. It's the Engine.
The Lotus Elise was one of the most celebrated driver's cars ever made. The engine inside was a Toyota 2ZZ-GE. Same one they put in a Corolla. LLMs are the...
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AI in Business Isn't a Technology Problem. It's a Human Existential One.
My brother started in graphic design when desktop publishing was taking off. A senior designer asked him to produce pages that could be manually pasted into layouts. He said, 'I...
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Jason Fried Is Right About Bespoke Software...For Now.
Jason Fried says he's not buying the bespoke software revolution. He's right — for now. But the question is changing faster than the answer.
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The Magpie Problem: What Happens When You Can Build Anything?
I'll admit it. I'm a magpie when it comes to startup ideas. The collapse of development effort has compounded my magpie tendencies in ways I didn't expect. Ideas can be...
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The Jevons Paradox of AI: Why Efficiency Won't Save Us From Ourselves
The more AI can do, the more we'll ask it to do. There's a 160-year-old economics concept called Jevons Paradox that predicted this perfectly.
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Our Tools Weren't Built for This
Claude Code kept rewriting my documentation files, and I had no way to track what changed. The AI did its job. The tools around it completely failed to do theirs....
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If The Build Is Free, What's Actually Worth Building?
Something weird is happening to software. Last week, I shipped something in twenty minutes that would have taken me days two years ago. If the build is nearly free, what's...
Read moreBuilding in the Age of AI
We’re living through one of the most significant technological shifts in history. AI is reshaping how we build software, how we think about problems, and how we create value.
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