Jul 27, 2026 - 8 minute read

That's AI Is the New Anti-Intellectualism

Someone writes a clear, well-structured argument online and the first reply is two words: “AI reply.” Not a counterargument. Not a question. A classification that ends the conversation before it starts. The person who wrote it, a real human with a real position, gets filed under “not worth engaging with” and the thread moves on. We have a new thought-terminating cliche, and it is dumber than the ones it replaced.

Jul 9, 2026 - 5 minute read

Bear Off First

Ten projects at eighty percent is zero projects shipped. You can push work forward across a dozen fronts and feel like a machine, but until something crosses the finish line, you have delivered nothing. In backgammon, the only move that actually scores is bearing off, removing a piece from the board entirely. Everything still in play is exposed and worth nothing until it gets home. Finishing one thing beats advancing ten.

Jun 24, 2026 - 6 minute read

Forward Flow

Most development pipelines optimize for the wrong thing. They optimize for correctness theater. Lengthy review cycles, bikeshed comment threads, approval queues that exist to make managers feel safe. The actual goal of a software delivery pipeline is simpler and more aggressive than that. Every merge makes the software better. Never worse. Everything else is overhead.

Jun 4, 2026 - 6 minute read

AI Natives Won't Use Your Web App

AI-native users do not want another web app. They already live in Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, Claude CoWork, and whatever agent workspace holds the day’s context. If your product makes them create another account, learn another dashboard, and remember another place to check, you are asking them to work backwards. They want to connect once, grant narrow authority, and call your service from the place where the work is already happening.