Entry #010
My AI Investigated a Colleague Without Being Asked
I asked Claude to look into a question. It searched our Slack, named who sent it, and judged what they’d got wrong — none of which I authorised.
AI 08 Jul 2026
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Entry #009
Your AI Boost Is Capped by the Work You Didn’t Touch
You promised leadership a 4× boost from AI. You got 1.5×. The missing speed is locked in the stages you never pointed it at — here’s the maths.
AI 01 Jul 2026
Entry #008
AI Takes the Effort. The Effort Was the Point.
I went down a rabbit hole about what AI does to how we learn. Outsource the effort and you lose the faculty — unless you keep the thinking for yourself.
AI 24 Jun 2026
Entry #007
AI Didn’t Kill Stack Overflow. ‘Marked as Duplicate’ Did.
Stack Overflow didn’t die because AI got good. It died because it made asking a question feel like a trial — and the moat it built became its undoing.
Engineering 10 Jun 2026
Entry #006
AI Won’t Find Your Bug. It’ll Confirm Your Hunch.
We brought Claude into our first incident war room. The lesson — give it a hypothesis to test, not a mystery to solve.
AI 27 May 2026
Entry #005
A Quarter’s Work in Five Weeks, Without Vibe-Coding
A three-to-four-month project shipped in five weeks — AI-first, with more discipline, not less. The change was prototypes over specs, humans in the loop.
Engineering 06 May 2026
Entry #004
Long AI Chats Don’t Degrade — Unstructured Ones Do
Everyone says start fresh before a long AI chat degrades. I ran one for six weeks on a hard refactor — and it got better. Here’s why.
AI 15 Apr 2026
Entry #003
How We Cut a Firestore Analytics Bill by 96% Without a Rewrite
Our most expensive project was a dashboard misusing Firestore as an analytics store. The fix was not a migration — it was matching the model to the billing.
Engineering 25 Mar 2026
Entry #002
Training for Capacity, Not Intensity
I train for the capacity hard work runs on, not to look better. My cardio is swimming, not running — same result, far less joint wear.
Fitness 04 Mar 2026
Entry #001
How AI Code Review Went From Distrusted to Mandatory in a Year
Our engineers ignored the AI reviewer for months, then made it a mandatory step themselves. A story about adopting AI by demonstration, not by mandate.
AI 21 Jan 2026
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