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Long-form notes on AI systems, engineering leadership, design systems, and building in public — written the way I think aloud, not the way a press release sounds.

ENGINEERING MAY 3, 2026 • 14 min

Why Go Remains the Best Language for LLM Orchestration

Concurrency, compile-time safety, and deployment simplicity make Go the ideal backend for production LLM workloads.

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LEADERSHIP APR 15, 2026 • 11 min

Engineering Leadership in the Age of Generative AI

How to lead engineering teams through the biggest platform shift since cloud computing — without losing what made your team effective.

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SYSTEMS THINKING JAN 15, 2026 • 14 min

Why Most Enterprise AI Agents Fail

What eye-tracking research reveals about how experts actually retrieve and synthesize knowledge — and why current RAG approaches often miss the mark.

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ARCHITECTURE DEC 10, 2025 • 16 min

The Go Advantage for Production Agentic Systems

Bringing 15 years of distributed systems discipline to LLM orchestration, multi-agent workflows, and resilient backend layers.

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LEADERSHIP NOV 22, 2025 • 12 min

Governing GenAI at Scale

A practical playbook from regulated environments on building guardrails, observability, and team enablement.

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