Innovation Matters
Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.
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.
Your coding agent extension needs continuous evaluation
Your extension passed its evals. Days later, its code is identical, but can you still trust the result?
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.