Life in Production

I Promoted My AI

From ordering Claude around like a code monkey to running real refinement sessions with it. The three things I changed.

  • Quick ReadAI
  • July 15, 2026  ·  5 min read

Nobody Asked for Flawless

The more senior you get, the higher your bar for 'good enough' quietly climbs, until it lands on flawless. But nobody asked for flawless. They asked for something that works.

  • Quick ReadEngineering Culture
  • July 8, 2026  ·  6 min read

The BMW 316i M-Powered: Flashy Badges, Broken Engines

Why overextended expats buy luxury status symbols and dying companies sign nine-figure software contracts. An exploration of the same broken architecture playing out at human scale and corporate scale.

  • Deep DiveTech Culture
  • July 5, 2026  ·  7 min read

It Compiled. It Was Still Wrong.

AI can write the code, the tests, and the commit message. It can't tell you your font is exhausting the reader you forgot to picture. Knowing who the work is good for was always the job, and it still is.

  • Quick ReadAI
  • July 1, 2026  ·  5 min read

The Cult of Complexity: From Internet Cafes to AI Chatbots

An architectural critique of herd mentality and local hubris. Tracking how the cultural stigma of 'ready-made' assets mutates from empty 90s internet cafes and stripped Mercedes sensors straight into insecure 'custom' codebases and modern AI chatbot loops.

  • Deep DiveTech Culture
  • June 28, 2026  ·  12 min read

Your AI Is a Fortune Teller

It doesn't tell you the truth. It tells you what you came to hear. The danger was never the AI. It was the access policy built around it, and the context you fed it.

  • Quick ReadAI
  • June 24, 2026  ·  6 min read