Twelve months of building and throwing away work.
Aaron Levie's list of obsoleted AI tools is every pattern I learned last year. I'm resigned to the fact that anything I build today is almost useless in a quarter or two.
Writing
Perspectives on healthcare, life sciences, and technology — what works, what doesn't, and what I'm figuring out along the way.
You Don't Need a Breakthrough. You Need a Hundred Small Wins.
An AI agent made a 20-year-old codebase 53% faster by running experiments around the clock. The approach works on anything with a measurable target. That's the catch.
Code Review Is the Wrong Shape for Agentic Development
Agentic coding breaks code review. The problem isn't speed — it's that review was a context checkpoint, not just a quality gate.
AI Agents Need Their Own Identity. The Standards Don't Exist Yet.
Service accounts lose attribution. User tokens give agents everything you can see. The model we need already exists — in your calendar app.
How Claude Cowork Turned a Renewal Notice Into a Brand, a Website, and a Mailing List.
It caught an overpriced WordPress renewal. Three weeks later I had a brand, a site, and a newsletter.
Claude Cowork Is Basically a Safe(er) Version of Open Claw.
Scheduled AI tasks that run while you sleep — and how I set up Cowork as a daily productivity helper.
There's No Product Because There's No Software
If anyone can build it in a weekend, you can't amortize it. But the discourse is stuck on the wrong transition.
The Customers Didn't Want Innovation. That Was the Moat.
My grandfather ran the last full-fashion hosiery knitting mill in town. As a teenager, I saw a dead end. I was wrong about what I was looking at.
Your Gut Is a Liar. Don't Run Your Business on Vibes.
Even as a solo operator with total information awareness, my gut is untrustworthy for the things that matter most.
The Secret to Useful AI Agents? Boring Tools.
I built a PubMed research agent in under an hour. Zero custom code. Zero orchestration. Just an LLM and a clear API contract.
Before Paving a Cow Path with AI, Redesign the Road
AI removes old constraints, changing what's possible. The question isn't 'how do we make this step faster?' It's 'do we even need this step?'
Yesterday's Demo Shouldn't Be Tomorrow's Tech Debt
Long sales cycles mean you're constantly demoing features in development. Here's how to avoid letting old demos paralyze your product team.
The Quickest Way to Derail Your Health Tech Demo Is to Use Ridiculous Demo Data
Clinical audiences are expert pattern matchers. One questionable data point can undermine their confidence in everything else you're showing.
Most Healthcare and Life Science Data Pipelines Are About to Become Obsolete
I fed a PDF of my blood work to an LLM and got accurate FHIR output in seconds. Previously, this would have taken a team and weeks of work.
The Constraint I Used to Resist Is Now My Favorite Tool
Imagine having unlimited time, resources, and runway. Sounds like a dream? Paradoxically, it's my worst nightmare.