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Should Humans Read AI Code? I Don’t Grade the Answer.
Two questions I now ask every engineering manager candidate, and what the answers say about where a small internal dev team’s work is going.
Sep 29
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He Didn’t Want to Be a Meat Proxy
A reply to Obie Fernandez: the engineer in his essay works inside a process that gave the typing to a machine and offered him nothing in its place.
Sep 22
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The Cloud Removed a Policy Nobody Wrote Down
A successful migration exposed the integration decisions our old architecture had quietly avoided.
Sep 21
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August 2026
The Billable Hour Is Winning Your AI Rollout
Every enterprise AI rollout settles into the same lopsided shape, and inside a law firm the flat middle of that shape is a rational response to the…
Aug 11
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Your Résumé Was Evidence. Now It Is Only Output.
Hiring always worked by reading artifacts backwards to the judgment that made them, and that inference quietly stopped holding.
Aug 6
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The Number I Never Wrote Down
Reach and audience turn out to be different mechanisms, and only one of them was ever being measured.
Aug 4
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July 2026
We Were Already Offloading Our Thinking
A response to Yennie Jun: the autonomy we’re afraid of losing to AI was mostly delegated already — what matters is whether anyone reviews what comes…
Jul 20
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Agent Governance Is Access Control You Never Wrote Down
Every requirement a UN body just named for a trustworthy AI agent is the access discipline you already run for people — the only new part is the…
Jul 16
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What a Government Proved About AI That Vendors Wouldn’t
The Government of Alberta published twenty-one papers on rebuilding its technology with AI, and the real lesson is about the part you can’t buy.
Jul 14
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The Clock You Can’t See From Across the Table
Zack Shapiro’s “The Two Clocks” is right about the biggest problem in AI and law. Here is what it looks like from inside a firm.
Jul 8
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Governance Isn’t a Step in Your AI Pipeline
The Governed Context Pipeline — three phases, one wrapper, and the verification economics that decide what’s worth automating at all.
Jul 6
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The Teams Asking for AI Aren’t Generating the Revenue
When AI effort flows to whoever is most excited, you can ship for a year and never touch the part of the business that pays for it.
Jul 2
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