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Stop Using Epics & User Stories (4 minute read)

Debating epics and user stories distracts teams from meaningful outcomes. Framing work as outcomes, opportunities, and measurable experiments creates clarity and reinforces an outcome-oriented culture.

Jun 12 | Blog

I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

A "simple" weekend project turns into real infrastructure, and why agent context deserves a boring, reliable foundation.

The Shape of Things to Come (38 minute read)

Software will be excavated rather than designed, created without a concrete plan, just a lot of accretion over thousands of working days.

Aug 04 | AI

Anthropic pays AI's biggest salaries. Its CEO just discovered people might take them for the money (4 minute read)

Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, recently said he was worried that new hires were joining his company for the money rather than the mission. Anthropic reportedly pays more than any lab in AI. Hiring top researchers is hard, and keeping them is even more difficult. When every lab can pay millions, mission is the only lever left. Researchers chase money, but they also chase compute, influence over what gets built, and the freedom to work their own way.

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Stop Using Epics & User Stories (4 minute read)

I Tried to Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend. Reader, I Did Not Build a Context Layer for My Agent in a Weekend.

The Shape of Things to Come (38 minute read)

Anthropic pays AI's biggest salaries. Its CEO just discovered people might take them for the money (4 minute read)

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