Blog

Notes on developer tools, software engineering, and things I'm building.

• May 22, 2026

  A Diff Is Not a Handoff

  When an agent stops, what it leaves behind is raw output. The real product is the handoff: structured, reviewable, and safe for a human to take over.
• May 6, 2026

  Cognitive Debt and the Thinking Muscle

  Every thinking task you hand off is cheap in the moment. The compounding is not.
• May 4, 2026

  Open Forge: a command center for AI coding agents

  Open Forge is a local desktop app for managing AI coding agents without giving up control of the work.
• April 29, 2026

  The Erosion of Struggle

  AI fills the gaps before your brain gets a chance to. That might be costing you more than you think.
• April 20, 2026

  The Attention Cost of Agentic Development

  Running multiple AI agents in parallel feels productive. It might be costing you the one thing that makes hard work good.
• April 3, 2026

  Focus Is the Feature

  The new wave of agentic tools optimizes for more. More agents, more visibility, more notifications. That might be the wrong direction.
• March 27, 2026

  The Dirty Code Backlog — Why AI Should Learn When to Fix and When to Queue

  AI coding agents should act more like senior engineers: fix what matters now, and log the rest as reviewable backlog work.
• March 27, 2026

  When AI Orchestrates, Not Just Writes

  Getting good results from AI coding tools is a workflow problem. The next step is AI that manages that workflow.