AI Strategy
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I Vibe Coded a Civic Tool
Everyone is vibe coding the next todo app. I vibe coded a speed trap for my neighborhood. Slow Them Down estimates car speeds from a phone video, so residents can bring data to their city. The tools are not the problem. Purpose is.
Building in Public · 6 min -
“Tokenmaxxing” Is Lines-of-Code Thinking for the Agentic Era
Engineers now compete on leaderboards for tokens consumed. I have seen this before, with lines of code. Measure the most visible input and you get more of the input and less of the outcome. The metric changes. The mistake does not.
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Minutes Added To Workforce
Most companies measure AI in cost: jobs not hired, hours saved. That misses what is happening. AI adds minutes to the workforce you already have. The question is whether you track that new capacity and use it on purpose.
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The Next Platform Giant Is Hiding in Plain Sight
Every era of software produces a platform that becomes the system of record. The talk today is about which coding agent writes the best code. Agents are the editors of this era. The platform is what happens around them.
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Putting AI to Work in Your Engineering Workflow Today
What you can do this week to cut busywork: AI for test generation, first-pass code review, and the messy automation that fixed rules could not handle. Pick one painful process, automate it, and measure it. Fix the process first, because AI will scale your dysfunction.
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The Pre-AI to Post-AI Company Transition
Leaders must rethink beyond adding ML models. Transition to AI-native architectures and embrace probabilistic systems for robust outcomes in this new era of software.