Essays on the AI era, solo-founder journey, and the craft of software.
5 articles
Karpathy retired "vibe coding." Anthropic's own study says its product made devs 17% worse at understanding. The hype isn't broken — the classroom is. A field essay on context engineering as the new literacy.
If a weekend with the right AI tools can ship a working product, what is the craft? An essay on juniors, CTOs, solo founders, and pyramids that are losing tenants — grounded in 29 days of Claude Code data.
3,514 messages, 28 days, 9 sprints shipped in a single session — the 4-layer context stack a solo founder uses so AI does the execution and the human still owns the call.
The 5% capturing AI value at scale redesigned roles, workflows, governance, data, and KPIs before picking a model. The 95% in pilot purgatory did not.
Chatbots got good. Agents did not — not because the models aren't smart, but because the system around them isn't. Roles, responsibility, and why PDCA + L0–L4 control beats another model upgrade.
