Blog & Articles

Building a national AI assistant for 12 million citizens broke most of the software playbook I'd spent years learning. Here are the 6 lessons that survived contact with real users.

The Forward Deployed Engineer has gone from curiosity to one of the most talked-about titles in tech. Where it came from, what's actually new, and why it's good news for experienced engineers.

I shipped a fintech SaaS in 16 days. 38 commits, 304K lines, 24 entities. Seriously. Here's what that looks like in practice.

The gap between AI coding hype and reality isn't about the models. It's about what you build around them. A look at the spectrum from vibe coding to harness engineering.

From printing presses to large language models - a reflection on how the role of the machine minder has evolved across generations, and how I've become my father.

I recently started work with a Microsoft shop, and now that I'm in, I realize how many boring enterprise organizations run on Microsoft. Here's why Code Apps at Build 2025 changes everything for developers targeting enterprise contracts.