AI Is a Multiplier
February 26, 2026
AI is the strongest performance multiplier engineering has seen in decades. And multipliers widen gaps.
Blog Posts
Here are my latest thoughts and experiences.
The Merge Ritual: Cargo Culting Pull Requests
February 25, 2026
Pull requests were born in the Linux kernel's adversarial ecosystem. Most product teams copied the ritual without inheriting the problem.
Cheap Choices, Pricey Consequences
July 27, 2025
A few years back, two friends—a digital artist and a musician—approached me about prototyping their mobile game. They had a clear vision: a side-scrol…
Cargo Culting in Software Development: A Quick Introduction
July 07, 2025
Picture this: a development team spends weeks implementing the latest industry darling. Perhaps it's that shiny new microservices architecture everyon…
Consulting: Back in the Saddle
July 01, 2025
TL;DR — After a season of deep R&D (Godot, AI, shaders, Rust—you name it), dozens of indie-dev mentoring sessions, and a short detour involving a…
Software Development Insights
February 26, 2025
After four decades in software development—from enterprise IT through AAA game development to architecture consulting—I've accumulated quite a collect…