Bolting AI onto an organization built for walking pace doesn't make it faster. The bottleneck was never the typing — it was coordination, and AI only shone a light on it.
There's a genre of AI blog post that I skip as soon as I recognize it: the company retrospective where they handed everyone Copilot or Claude Code, waited a couple of quarters, and came away disappoin…
Why coding agents need a sandbox the agent cannot reach, an audit log the agent cannot write, and signed instructions the agent cannot rewrite.
Every coding-agent sandbox I've set up ends in the same tired loop. I lock it down, the agent stops being useful, I loosen it, and I end up exactly where I started: YOLO mode. At best there is a sandb…
Trans Day of Visibility, 2026 Being myself is apparently political now. I'm a trans woman. I'm a Staff SRE, an open-source contributor, a KubeCon speaker, a community organizer, a homesteader, a neigh…
I run up to ten AI coding agents at a time. I wanted to see what they were all doing. So obviously I built a WoW raid frame on a $25 LED panel. Each agent gets an 8x8 sprite. When it's working, you s…
Large language models are trained on massive amounts of text. During training, the model learns patterns and stores them as weights. Not rules, not lookup tables. Weights: billions of numerical relati…
I was at a friend's apartment, testing GPT-4o's voice mode. She had lovebirds, and they were chirping away. "Can you hear the birds?" I asked. "Yes, I can hear them," GPT said. This surprised me. I'd …
Last week, Claude Code was about to open a PR for a feature I never asked for. Not a slightly-wrong implementation. A completely different feature. I'd just spent an hour planning the task with my nav…
I've been using Navigators for my platform engineering work and they've completely changed how I interact with AI. Keeping track of work, planning implementations, and learning over time and across pr…