All of my thoughts on programming, leadership, technology, and building effective teams, collected in chronological order.
An audit control from accounting, applied to an AI coding pipeline. What happened when I stopped asking agents to behave and started removing their ability to misbehave, including the agent that quietly smuggled a junk commit onto main.
Reading a balance and then deciding is not a check, it is a guess with good manners. I graded four ledgers I had built and none of them enforced their most important rule where it actually needed enforcing.
A founder handed me a plan to reach parity with two custody companies in eleven weeks, with two engineers. The plan was not stupid. It was a category error, and it is the most common one being made in engineering planning right now.
A personal reflection on a year of building, learning, and love — from developing WhoPrompt and a Go-based ledger system, to shaping FabricX and speaking at Curacel, and finally, getting married.
Why some engineers dance with AI while others get their toes stepped on. The difference between senior and junior developers using AI isn't about prompting skills - it's about engineering fundamentals.
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