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Things I have learned building software.
A few pieces worth reading, not a blog full of filler.
- 14 min readessayAI transformationEngineering
How to become an AI-native software engineer without getting slower
A randomised trial found experienced developers were 19% slower with AI while believing they were 20% faster. This is what closes that gap, and the workflow that makes the speed real.
- 6 min readessayAI transformationOperations
Why AI transformation fails after the demo
The demo is the easy part. Most AI programmes stall in the gap between a working prototype and a system people rely on every day.
- 5 min readframeworkAI transformationProduct
Fix the process before you automate it
Automating a broken workflow just gives you a faster broken workflow. The cheapest improvement is usually removing a step, not adding a model.
- 5 min readnoteStartupsProduct
What founders should validate before building
Most early products don't fail because the code was wrong. They fail because the founder validated the wrong thing, or nothing at all.