Writing archive / 07
MUSINGS.
Notes from building AI products, agentic systems, and the software around them.
07 published · 2026Software Is Multiplying. Users Aren’t.
AI can automate nearly everything between an idea and a working product. But today, it is not your paying customer.
AI Made Everyone Look High-Agency
Starting has become nearly free. The real signal is what happens after your work meets reality.
AI Gave Me More Capacity Than I Knew What to Do With
AI made starting cheap. It did not make finishing free, or attention abundant.
Stop Telling Every Senior Engineer to Be More Strategic
Every organization needs strategy. That does not make “be more strategic” a useful development plan.
Your AI Agent Should Never Make the Same Mistake Twice
The best AI evals start as customer complaints. Those tests eventually become the product's memory.
I Told My AI Agent to “Try Harder”
A change that fixed the exact behavior I was targeting quietly made the overall product worse.
Software Engineering in the Age of Agents
Some thoughts on what software engineering looks like in the age of agents.