Field notes
Short essays on what these tools actually do once they meet real work. No panic, no sales pitch, just the part most people skip.
The Rise of Single-Use Software
Software used to need a crowd to be worth building. Now one problem is enough. The opportunity is real, but capturing it safely takes a structure most companies don’t have yet.
Read →The Fix Is Simpler Than You’re Letting It Be
A business leader tells you the real fix in one sentence at the bar, then reaches for something big and slow in the boardroom. The simple answer was the right one.
Read →Your AI Coding Assistant Won’t Tell You When You’re Off Track. Here’s How to Fix That.
You come to these tools expecting a partner that tests your thinking and tells you when you’re wrong. A coding assistant is built to do the opposite.
Read →You’re the Executive. Make Your AI Coding Agent Report Back.
Direct an AI build for long enough and you lose your grip on how it works. Make it brief you, the way a developer reports to the executive who signs off.
Read →Two AIs, One Folder, No Integration Required
Two coding agents from rival companies can work the same files on your desk, with nothing to connect. One builds, one reviews, and you keep the pen.
Read →One of the Most Valuable AI Skills Has Nothing to Do With AI
The intelligence now costs about twenty dollars a month. The discipline that makes it worth anything is the part still in your hands.
Read →Microsoft's New AI Sorts Your Inbox by What Matters. Teach It Your Preferences to Get the Most Out of It.
It tags every email high, normal, or low and tells you why. Spend fifteen minutes telling it what matters to you, and it stops guessing.
Read →Why AI Gets Big Numbers Wrong, and How to Fix It
A two-part setup for data too big for the machine to read, and why you split the thinking from the counting.
Read →Your AI Isn't Lying. Your Data Is a Mess.
Why building one clean dataset, once, fixes the lies and the bill at the same time.
Read →Every Prophet Had a Programmer
A million AI agents "started a religion and planned a revolution." Every one of them was just running a persona a person wrote.
Read →Everybody Forwarded Me the Apocalypse
An AI deleted a database, the internet lost its mind, and the most dangerous person in the building got exactly what he was waiting for.
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