Innovation Matters
Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.
I care less whether you wrote it
Did you write it? The answer could mean typing every character or approving what someone else produced. What are we actually asking?
The red pen
AI can keep an entire working session in context. Yet changing one sentence still requires directions that sound like a confused treasure map.
Your app is losing its grip on your customers
Your customers still use your app and renew their contracts. Meanwhile, the work they once did in it might already be moving somewhere else.
Don't confuse a demo with a product
AI can turn a prompt into polished software in an afternoon. The result looks finished, which makes one crucial question dangerously easy to skip.
AI makes building cheap, ownership is still expensive
Your coding agent can replace that SDK in twenty minutes. But what happens during the years that follow?