The story
Notes from the workbench
Notes, essays and chapters from the work and the life around it.
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- The job is changing, so I leaned in Skills instead of prompts, parallel agents instead of one chat, and a team that started contributing back.
- You'd think outgrowing your job means you stop doing it For me it meant the opposite. When AI tooling frees up your week, spend it on things other people use.
- I had no gauge, so I measured myself A year of merged PRs, product work only: from the 57th–85th percentile to the 99.95th, and what actually changed.
- Most engineers aren't short on AI tools They’re short on AI tools that are easy to run and worth what they cost. Here’s the layer I built to fix that.