Thoughts on product development, UX engineering, and the intersection of business strategy and code.
Since The Long Hike, the work has moved from producing code toward directing AI inside a clear architecture. This post covers that change through payroll, finance, and products built for specific people, plus the security checks that still sit with the engineer.
Raw benchmark scores mean nothing if an app feels sluggish. Discover how skeleton screens, optimistic UI, delayed loaders, and mechanical empathy transform user perception of speed.
AI has drastically reduced the Construction Cost of software, but it has actually increased the Decision Cost, the cognitive tax of verifying, auditing, and integrating non-deterministic, often "hallucinated" output. DX is no longer a "nice-to-have" luxury.
Discover how to set up VSCode and Cursor workspaces, to eliminate friction in your context switching, provide the AI coding assistant with more context in your project, and automate your full-stack development process.
Online profiles flatten growth into bullet points. This is the harder story behind mine — Marsaxlokk, Buddy, blockchain, and the people who built me.
The decision between MCP vs CLI is a balance between initial engineering work and ongoing expenses for tokens. Find out which works best for your AI agent's production scale.