N — Notes
2026
The archive.
4 essays. Anchored in two decades of building digital platforms.
2026
4 notes
AI Doesn't Fix Your Culture. It Amplifies It.
When AI coding tools spread through a team, the first thing I noticed wasn't velocity — it was bifurcation. Good habits got faster. Bad habits scaled. The question isn't which AI tool to adopt. It's what culture you're about to amplify.
The Feedback Loop Is Your Engineering Pulse
On silence as the most destructive force in engineering — and why the leaders who thrive are the ones who can navigate between balcony strategy and street-level reality.
Change the Engine Mid‑Flight
What the Strangler Fig pattern actually looks like in production — traffic shadowing, CDC, the kill switch, and the unglamorous readiness behind every clean migration story.
The Stack Is Rarely the First‑Order Problem.
A post-mortem on modernization — why the real bottleneck is almost never the technology stack, and the sequence that actually fixes it.