Innovation Matters
Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.
You don't "just" replace an enterprise app
AI can reproduce the screens of an expensive enterprise app in a weekend. But before you celebrate the savings, ask what exactly your company has been paying for.
What's your minimal viable model?
A better AI model appears, so you switch. But how would you know whether its extra intelligence makes any difference to your work?
Test whether your knowledge skill actually works
Your knowledge skill gives reasonable answers to the questions you've tried. What would you find in the parts of the source you didn't think to test?
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?