Writing
Long-form notes on developer experience, AI systems, engineering leadership, design systems, and building in public — written the way I think aloud, not the way a press release sounds.
Developer Experience Is How Experts Stay Fast
DevEx is not snacks, swag, or a satisfaction survey. It is the cognitive environment of the people who ship production systems — and the cheapest way to waste an expert is to make them hunt for the path.
Golden Paths Beat Golden Rules
Standards nobody follows are decorations. The only platform standard that survives is a path faster than the workaround — CI/CD, IaC, and ephemeral environments included.
AI Tooling Belongs on a Path That Already Works
Evaluating AI-assisted development is real DevEx work. Dropping an assistant on a forty-minute pipeline and a tribal wiki is not transformation — it is expensive autocomplete on top of confusion.
Open Source AI in Mid-2026: The Convergence Is Real — And So Are the Divides
By mid-2026 the gap between the best open-weight models and closed frontier systems has narrowed dramatically on benchmarks and many real workloads. But production reality — especially for reliable agentic systems, regulated environments, and long-horizon reasoning — still reveals meaningful differences. Here's where things stand and what it means for teams building actual platforms.
GOMAXPROCS, CPU Limits, and the Kubernetes Trap That Silently Kills Go Throughput
If your Go pod has less than one full core, the runtime treats it as single-threaded for parallelism. For years the Go scheduler didn't know about Kubernetes CPU limits and over-scheduled anyway. Here's what changed in Go 1.25, why giving a pod 'extra' CPU sometimes dramatically improves throughput, and how to get it right in 2026.
Expert Vision: Cognitive Foundations for Human-AI Collaboration
What fifteen years of studying how experts perceive, decide, and perform under pressure — from eye-tracking systems to competitive gaming to enterprise AI platforms — teaches us about building agents that genuinely extend expertise rather than merely automate tasks.