Essays & Field Notes

Writing.

After the Roadmap: Migrating the Past, Shipping the Present, Governing the Autonomous Future

Writing code is no longer the bottleneck. Knowing what's right is. A field guide to five-move legacy migrations, evidence-first product velocity, and governing overnight agent swarms.

Coding Agents Aren't Just for Coders

Coding agents were built for software engineers. The surprise is how useful they are for everyone else, like a branch manager the morning after a hailstorm.

A Day in the Life of Our Family Agent

We built an AI agent to run our family's school logistics. A day with her, from the 4 AM brief to the afternoon we ran late to a parent-teacher conference.

Code is the New Latin: The Rise of the Classical Programmer

AI agents now write most of our code. Like Latin, code won't die. It will become a specialist language, and the few who can read it will matter more.

How My 5-Year-Old Built a 3D Game by Voice

My daughter Gemma, age five, built a 3D game by talking to Antigravity. Then we put Gemini inside the game so she could change it while she played.

The Speed-Creativity Loop: Designing in Working Software

When AI generation is fast enough to keep you in flow, you stop making mockups and design directly in working software. Here's how to work in fast loops.

Sell, Build, or Govern: Where the Middle Goes When Building Gets Cheap

Coordination roles exist because turning a customer's problem into software was slow. Agents remove that friction. The people in the middle have three places to go.

The SaaSpocalypse: When Software Is Built on Demand

SaaS rented software to many customers because building it was expensive. Coding agents remove that reason. Here is which moats drain and what survives.

American Intelligence: What I Learned Making an Album with Suno

A former music producer on making the album American Intelligence with Suno, why expertise still matters, and where value moves in the music business.

Building a Google Docs Text-to-Speech Tool

A short Python script that reads a Google Doc with the Docs API and turns it into audio with Cloud Text-to-Speech Chirp 3 HD voices.

Building a Voice Agent with Gemini Multimodal Live and Twilio

Build a phone-based AI voice agent by bridging Twilio media streams and the Gemini Multimodal Live API with a small Quart server.