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Articles
Industry trends, commentary, and reports from the real work of building and delivering software.
Hiring more developers or replacing them with AI agents leaves the same question unanswered: who will make the decisions that keep delivery coherent?
Model weights cannot scan a network. Software gives an AI agent its tools, credentials, and paths into systems we chose to expose.
An AI agent is a model inside a software loop with tools, permissions, memory, and a stop condition. The machinery is surprisingly ordinary.
Stories
Stories make familiar situations easier to see and discuss, with a bit of healthy entertainment along the way.
After Whitaker Payroll shuts its doors, the damage spreads unevenly. Some former employees find new work quickly. Others discover that decades of loyalty, office competence, and narrow specialization do not ...
A coach proves an Ohio payroll system can be modernized. Leaders fire him twice to protect their status as the company unravels.
Stefan turns one working radio fix into momentum across climate control and navigation: test first, flash fast, prove it on real hardware. Then Klaus sends Stuttgart a report that joins those results to eigh...
Stefan joins a failing São Paulo automotive supplier. As developers make progress, fraud and executive decisions threaten the team.
The day before Sophie flies back to Berlin, Mateo takes them to Kuna Yala. The road climbs from the Chepo side into the mountains, the Caribbean appears below them in impossible color, and a Guna family serv...
No consultants. No frameworks. No dysfunction. Just a sixteen-year-old Berlin girl discovering her father's real life among horses, heat, and the people of Chepo.