Innovation Matters
Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.
A bicycle for thought
Writing helps us discover what we think, but it leaves us alone with the page. What changes when the page can question us back?
What if coding agents had a learning mode?
Coding agents can take us from intent to production in minutes. What happens to the understanding we used to build along the way?
If you built it, so can I
Everyone can build software now. That gives each of us more control, while quietly changing what happens to everything we learn along the way.
What happened to the paragraph?
AI-generated writing can be remarkably easy to finish. Why can 2,000 words leave you with so little to remember?
Your product didn't get worse
Customers still like your product and keep renewing. Meanwhile, their expectations may be changing in ways your usual signals won't reveal.