Everyone's a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking.
Thought leadership got cheap. Thinking didn't.
Michael Bernstein
Michael Bernstein — VP of AI Engineering at Markup AI. Writing about AI, engineering leadership, and distributed systems.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of External Feedback Loops
If the agent can't be forced to confront ground truth, you didn't build a software factory - you built a demo generator.
Writing in 2026
Why I'm starting to publicly write in 2026.