You’ve built some AI Agents. They are doing their job. Could they be doing it better? Could they be doing it cheaper? You have assumptions about those questions, but it’s hard to know for sure. The industry standard solution is Evals. Evals…
LLMs have broken the traditional software playbook: demos are misleading, expertise is shifting too fast to hire for, and the conditions surrounding AI adoption are the worst possible for building the learning organization you actually need…
Mid-way through building an agentic application, I got stuck. I found myself needing to make it work, make it right, and make it fast, all at once, and progress was slow. Reframing it as a distributed system helped me recognize where my pro…
This will be the first in a series of articles about a tool I built called Chart Chat. Chart Chat is a conversational chart builder. You give it a data source, describe how you want it visualized, and a clever robot writes all the chart dra…
Over the holidays, I took some time to play around with the AI-powered App building platform Lovable. It was obvious within minutes of using it that it could build a lot of functionality very quickly, but less obvious was the answer to the
I’ve been thinking about a concept that I’ve been calling “Proof of Thought” for a while now. It’s the idea that certain processes in the modern workplace require that someone thinks about them for a while, and the best way to prove that th…
I have always hated the phrase “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions!”. It feels lazy. It incentivizes people to sweep things under the rug if they can’t figure out what to do. It doesn’t give any useful direction to the person bring…
The demands on a manager’s time are endless and sometimes it feels like you’re being pulled in every direction at once. These demands can make it hard to focus, they make it hard to move from reacting to problems to anticipating them. In th…
As a Director of Engineering, I have monthly 1:1s with all of my direct reports. A 1:1 (one-on-one) is a recurring meeting with no set agenda between a manager and one of their reports. The internet is full of valuable insight into how to r…
In this article, I will explain why I think Stripe should start treating health insurance cards like any other 3.3”x2.1” pieces of plastic with 12 digits on them and take their slice of a $4.1 trillion industry. Outpatient billing is expens…
When confronted with a complicated task, the first response of any developer is to dive in and start coding. This is precisely the wrong thing to do. I might sound hyperbolic, but it’s true. Every single design plan I have ever seen has res…
So you’ve got some data. In my case, I’ve been keeping track of how successful my taco truck has been. There’s nothing crazy here: a date column, how many of each kind of taco I sold, and where I parked my taco truck that day. At this point…