Your Moat Is Responsibility
Vibe coders can clone your features overnight. They cannot clone your compliance, your data obligations, or the promise you made to the people who trusted you.
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My thoughts on life, love, and everything.
It's Not Cheating
My son is using AI like a search engine, and getting burned by hallucinations. The fix isn't a better model — it's learning to treat your first prompt as a draft.
Read more →You Bought the Tokens, Now What?
Buying everyone an AI seat and watching the usage dashboard is not a strategy. If you did not define what behavioral change looks like before you rolled out, you are flying blind.
Read more →The Lights Just Came On
Coinbase cut 14% and said every leader must be an individual contributor. AI doesn't change that judgment call — it just makes the gap between those who get it and those who don't impossible to hide.
Read more →The New Developer Superpower Isn't Writing Code
AI writes code faster than most developers can type. The bottleneck is no longer implementation — it's judgment. And judgment is the one thing the agent can never have.
Read more →Shite Code That Works Is Still Shite Code
When AI writes your code and it works, does code quality still matter? Cal reflects on V1 of his distillery booking bot and wrestles with what it means to be the client instead of the coder.
Read more →The Maintenance Gap: Who Owns This After It Ships?
AI has lowered the bar to build software, but the bar to maintain it hasn't moved. Before you ship, ask who owns it after it's done.
Read more →AI Discipline: Having the Tools Isn't the Same as Using Them Well
Teams are great at adopting new tools and slow at building discipline around them. The teams that figure out the discipline part first will have a real advantage.
Read more →AI Is Eating SaaS
With AI, anyone can build exactly what they need. The old question of 'Is it our core competency?' is fading, and the per-seat subscription model is in trouble.
Read more →Build Something: Why I Built My Own AI Assistant
I built a personal AI assistant instead of buying one. The process of mapping out my own workflow turned out to be just as valuable as the tool itself.
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