Essay11 min read
The 3am Engineer Who Couldn't Find the Answer
Your best engineer quit. Your on-call just got paged. The service is down. Nobody who's awake has ever touched this code. This is the cost of undocumented identity.
Insights
Thinking on software identity, agentic development, and the engineering decisions that persist.
Essay12 min read
Documentation Is Dead. Long Live Identity.
The $6 billion documentation industry is solving the wrong problem. You don't need better docs. You need software that knows what it is.
Guide15 min read
What Is Spec-Driven Development? The Definitive Guide
Spec-driven development is a paradigm where specifications are the primary artifact and AI agents generate code from them. Here's how it works, who's doing it, and where it's heading.
Essay13 min read
The Missing Layer Between Your AI Agent and Your Codebase
Every AI coding agent has context about your code. None have persistent understanding of what your software is supposed to be. That's the gap.
Essay14 min read
Software DNA: The Primitive Nobody Built
Software DNA is a declarative identity layer that defines what software is, what it should do, and what constraints it must honor. It's the primitive the industry has been building around without building.
Manifesto18 min read
Your Software Doesn't Know What It Is
Software runs the financial system, the power grid, the hospital. It has no persistent identity. In an era where 41% of code is AI-generated, that's existential.
Essay11 min read
Your Best Engineers Are Now Full-Time Reviewers. That's a Problem.
AI 10x'd code generation. Code review capacity didn't scale. Senior engineers are drowning.
Essay10 min read
The Invoice Your AI Agent Wrote While You Slept
96% of organizations report AI costs higher than expected. One agent loop cost $47K over 11 days. The FinOps problem nobody budgeted for.
Essay11 min read
The Hidden Cost of AI Agent Sprawl
Every team runs different agents with different configs. Nobody owns the governance. The hidden costs are compounding.
Essay11 min read
The Ghost in Your Engineering Org
Your most valuable asset walks out the door every evening. Some nights it doesn't come back. The cost of undocumented institutional knowledge is enormous -- and invisible.