Essays

The phenomenology of working with AI—what it actually feels like to think alongside a machine

The Ethics of Data Collection at Scale

Organizations collect 1,400 data points per customer interaction, up from 200 in 2018. The gap between what we can collect and what we should collect is a technical team's responsibility.

Integration patterns: What enterprise architecture teaches about organizing a life

The Thundering Herd of 2026: SRE for AI Agents

AI agents generated 847 million daily API calls in Q4 2025. Traditional capacity planning cannot handle their correlated burst patterns. New SRE approaches are required.

Zero-Trust Architecture as Epistemic Humility

Organizations implementing zero-trust architecture reduced attack surfaces by 68% and eliminated lateral movement in 94% of simulated breaches. Zero trust is epistemic humility, not paranoia.

Simone Weil on Attention and Code Review Practice

Simone Weil called attention the rarest form of generosity. Applied to code review, attention means reading code to understand the mind that wrote it, not just to find bugs.

Alienation in the Age of Automation: Marx Was Partly Right

Marx described alienation as separation from the products of labor. The $395 billion automation industry has scaled that separation. Designing automation that preserves meaning is an engineering responsibility.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation and the 89% Problem

RAG systems achieving 89% retrieval accuracy mean 1 in 9 queries produce responses built on incorrect context. These errors are harder to detect than hallucination because every verification signal confirms the response.

Internal Developer Platforms Should Feel Like Products

Internal developer platforms applying product management principles achieved 74% adoption within 6 months, compared to 31% for platforms relying on organizational mandates.

AI Ethics Guidelines Are Architecture Requirements

Treating AI ethics guidelines as architecture requirements reduced post-deployment ethical incidents by 67% across 4 production systems. Ethics constraints force better engineering discipline.