Notes on software, AI, security, and useful systems.

I write about the gap between what technology can do and what makes it useful in practice.

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AI Is Advancing, Just Not for You

Why AI’s most useful capabilities still reach builders before everyone else

Why Off-the-Shelf Software Has a Ceiling

How to recognize when configuration and workarounds are creating more work than the software removes

The Lock on the Back Door

How long-lived credentials spread through software systems and what a stronger design does differently

AI Is Not Your Co-Founder

Useful AI begins with understanding how you already work