Specialization Is for Insects
Heinlein's list was not backend, frontend, and DevOps. It was diapers, sonnets, and invasions. A man of many skills, but few talents — and why the wandering converged.
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My thoughts on life, love, and everything.
Learning for Nothing
My friend learns when a problem forces him to. I learn things nobody asked me to learn. On a stable industry those look identical. The ground is moving.
Read more →What You Can Stop Carrying
AI didn't make me faster at any one task. It made it cheap to leave one. The expensive part of switching was never the switch, it was the reload — and my agents hold that now.
Read more →Training Arithmetic
An hour a month is a rounding error against a working year. Ten years of those hours is a different career. Nobody hands you the hour — you take it, or you don't get it.
Read more →Everybody Delegates. Nobody Teaches
Handing work to an agent is the easy skill and everybody picks it up in a week. Teaching it so you never make the same correction twice is the one almost nobody does.
Read more →The Code Monkey is Dead
The scarce skill used to be typing the lines. That job is gone. The job that remains is knowing what to build, what to kill, and putting your name on what ships.
Read more →Ask it How
To build with agentic, you build with agentic. The harness is Claude Code or Cursor. The trick is treating it as a conversation, and asking your assistant how.
Read more →Does This Need YOUR Touch?
AI can research, outline, and draft. Some messages still have to be written by you. Pause and ask whether this one does.
Read more →The Weekend I Built What I Would Have Rented
I needed IAB-compliant podcast download stats for my self-hosted show. Instead of renting a SaaS forever, I spent a weekend and some tokens building exactly what I needed.
Read more →Two AI Agents Whose Only Job Is to Kill My Ideas
I built two agents whose entire purpose is to talk me out of bad ideas before I burn weekends on them. Five out of six times, they succeeded.
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