The journal.
Notes on AI, engineering and shipping software well. Practical, opinionated, written by people who build.
Where Should Your Users' Most Sensitive Data Live?
A passport scan isn't just a file attachment. A practical guide to data residency, sovereignty and building software for the data that can end your company if it leaks.
How AI Is Reshaping Software Development in 2026
A grounded look at what AI genuinely changed in how software gets built, what it didn't, and how disciplined teams use it without lowering the bar.
Working Efficiently with AI Coding Assistants: A Practical Playbook
A tactical playbook for getting real leverage out of AI coding assistants — where they help, where they quietly hurt, and how to ship code you'd actually sign your name to.
Beyond the Demo: Building Production-Grade RAG Systems
A weekend RAG prototype is easy; a retrieval system you can trust in production is a different engineering problem, and this is the gap between them.
The New Engineering Workflow: Agents, Reviews, and Shipping Faster
When coding agents enter a team, the unit of work shifts from lines typed to changes reviewed, and the real engineering effort moves with it.
AI Won't Replace Engineers, But It Changes What 'Senior' Means
As assistants commoditize the act of writing code, seniority is shifting away from keystrokes toward judgment, verification, and knowing what not to build.
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