Notes from a developer who isn't deprecated yet.
Twenty-five years building software. The landscape shifts. The tools change. The craft remains.
Deep, original research produced through managed AI agents — directed by a human who has been in the room long enough to know what matters. Each topic is its own project. Researched rigorously. Published as long-form writing and audio.
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The technical work of writing code is increasingly what agents do — so the bottleneck moved to the human point of contact: getting truth out of a person and into the machine, then pulling accumulated knowledge back across the gap. Six pieces reading five unfamiliar literatures the way a senior engineer reads a recovered codebase — distrust the documentation, find what's load-bearing, run the tests.
Read the research →Towton
AI companies extract billions of pages and return almost nothing. The tools promising to fix it are selling rank they haven't earned. Six-piece intelligence briefing on the collision between AI and the open web — the extraction, the traps, the broken promises, and what actually survives.
Read the research →The Golden Key
An original story in the world and voice of George MacDonald — composed through a multi-agent pipeline that studied nine of his works. Then the engineering that made it possible: pipeline design, evaluation architecture, and the honest accounting of what agent-managed creative production can and cannot achieve.
Read the research →Measure Twice
What documentation costs tradespeople — in time, money, and disputes lost — and a hands-on code camp that builds the fix with generative AI. Research and practical tools for the quote-to-payment cycle.
Read the research →True North
What happens when the profession you've spent 25 years in starts shifting under your feet? Original research on AI, market dynamics, and career strategy for senior developers.
Read the research →The Process
Every piece published here is agent-managed — AI agents scoped, directed, and reviewed by a senior developer. The research is rigorous. The synthesis is deliberate. The quality is the proof.