FIELD NOTE · 16 MIN READ
I Wired an LLM to a Fly's Brain
AI agents usually inherit interfaces whose meanings have already been decided. I wanted to know what happens when the actions exist before the abstractions.
#software
Software as a medium, industry, economic object, and way of organizing work.
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FIELD NOTE · 5 MIN READ
The Enterprise Security Model That Agentic AI Quietly Broke
Enterprise security has spent decades protecting credentials. Agentic AI shifts the problem from secrets at rest to authority in motion, forcing us to rethink identity, delegation, and execution in autonomous systems.
MARGINALIA · LinkedIn
Ideas are nothing. Execution is everything.
As AI makes execution cheaper, direction matters more: what to build, whom to serve, and whether the problem is worth solving.
ESSAY · LinkedIn · 6 MIN READ
First Movers Don’t Win In Technology. Last Movers Do.
In tech, first is rarely best. The winners are the ones who wait for the fog to clear, then move decisively when the category is legible.
MARGINALIA · LinkedIn
AI assistants create a false sense of progress for young engineers
AI can make young engineers faster without making them better.
MARGINALIA · LinkedIn
If you’ve watched the series Dark on Netflix, I’m almost certain you’re a fan
Companies can fall into an AI loop of modernization and cost savings. Breaking it requires wanting more: resilience, intelligence, and speed.
MARGINALIA · LinkedIn
Code has never been cheaper
Cheaper code and faster delivery do not guarantee a useful product. Conviction grounded in customer understanding gives the work direction.
MARGINALIA · LinkedIn
Gartner’s stock has crashed nearly 50% in the past six months
AI did not erase research’s value; it removed the scapegoat. Gartner’s deeper challenge is a generation of builders acting on conviction, accepting failure, and refusing to outsource accountability.
FIELD NOTE · LinkedIn · 4 MIN READ
Why Shipping Code Faster Won’t Save You
Speed is cheap now. Differentiation is not. The winning teams are the ones who know what to build, not just how fast to ship.
FIELD NOTE · LinkedIn · 4 MIN READ
The Low-Code Fallacy in Enterprise Software
Low-code can accelerate prototypes; it cannot repeal complexity. Real enterprise software still needs engineers who understand consequences.
MARGINALIA · LinkedIn
The Future of Jobs Report 2025 from the World Economic Forum shows what employers claim
The future of work may favor AI, resilience, and creativity, but those skills depend on the basics: reading, writing, mathematics, reasoning, and the ability to teach others.
MARGINALIA · LinkedIn
Hiring software development engineers
Seeking software development engineers at all levels with Next.js, full-stack, and user experience skills, along with backend and machine learning engineers experienced in Python.
FIELD NOTE · LinkedIn · 11 MIN READ
On Building A Badass Modern Internet-scale App...
Internet-scale systems are not just bigger apps. They are different organisms: distributed, failure-tolerant, and built for change.
