A notebook at the threshold of a new craft
Notes on engineering, AI, and what it means to build software while the discipline itself is being rewritten.
Junior developers see 27-39% productivity gains from AI; seniors see 8-13%. The naive read is replace the seniors. The real read, and what it means for fintech orgs picking a strategy in 2026, is the opposite.
AI-driven throughput has broken the assumptions behind traditional code review. Here is how to shift from exhaustive line-by-line scrutiny to higher-order architectural thinking without losing accountability.
The Poetic Edda's advice on wisdom, deception, and transformation maps uncomfortably well onto the challenges of the AI age. Here is what the old poems get right.