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This is getting ridiculous: I shipped 490 pull requests in June

A follow-up to the AI-Native Engineering Playbook, four months later, with real throughput numbers for every stage and a few questions I can't answer yet.

The AI-Native Engineering Playbook: Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly

A framework for engineering teams ready to go all the way with AI

Why AI Ethics Matter Even If AI Isn’t Conscious

Much of the public debate about AI ethics is stuck on the same questions:

AI-Native Product Creation

How do we build products efficiently when the hard part is no longer the manual work? Here is my approach to empowering and coordinating AI-leveraged product teams.

The bottleneck is no longer developer capacity. AI has broken that

For decades, software engineering processes were designed around the scarcity of developer time.

AI Reconstruction of "When Must We Kill Them?"

Given only the title, subtitle and top comments of Nicholas Decker's essay "When Must We Kill Them?" by Nicholas Decker — April 17, 2025, this is what AI (o3) believes what was written.