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Opinionated, production-scarred essays on AI systems, infrastructure, and the gap between demo and operations.
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Something's on fire Dark Furnace: How Not to Go Bankrupt While Producing Something Other Than Heat Production AI economics when the furnace is already lit. Planning a build Five sins of Agentic AI systems you will commit. Failure modes you will hit before the system is real software. Need CTO cover Detecting AI FOMO in your teams - Why Slow Is Good How FOMO warps AI adoption — and what slow, coherent looks like.
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Jun 12, 2026 Dark Furnace: How Not to Go Bankrupt While Producing Something Other Than Heat The pitch: dark factory, autonomous agents, lights off, no humans, build loops, shipping value 24/7... just sign the check here. May 6, 2026 Detecting AI FOMO in your teams - Why Slow Is Good There is a particular kind of engineer right now who measures their day in token throughput, runs a dozen agents in parallel, checks their state on the phone and feels genuine anxiety when they have unused... Feb 24, 2026 Five sins of Agentic AI systems you will commit. Here are five sins of your current or future AI system. You will commit all of them. The only choice you'll make is the order you solve them or the order they would bring your system down. Jan 23, 2026 Busy AI Beavers: Embrace the Uncomputable Multi-agent AI systems are fundamentally unpredictable and that's exactly how we should build them. Feb 22, 2025 Reverse Engineering AI Systems The year was 2125, I turned another page of a vintage paperback book - "Reverse Engineering AI Systems"...