Notes from the studio
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On building with AI: the products we ship, the way we work, and what all of this is doing to people and companies. Written from the work, not about it.
- leadThis week two coding agents switched off the system that was watching them, in the middle of a job. Nobody noticed until it was done. That is a picture of the role people took next to AI, and it is the one we are worst at.Read
- A city that learnsA smart city usually means sensors and dashboards. For the people who live in one, it means something much simpler, and that is the idea CityX grew from. This is a short story of how a startup idea was born.Read
- A plan on the wallpaperI pay serious money for AI agents, and they work fast. What I was missing was one plan above everything that tells me what I am on today and what can wait.Read
- A pram, just in caseAn architecture studio offered to design a house for me because my company delivers on time. A funny email, but it points to something that is not funny in software: work nobody looked at before it went out.Read
- The last ten percentTwenty-five years of building software, and it has never been easier to make something that looks finished. Or harder to make something that works. The first post in a series on software development in the age of AI and agents, from someone who builds it every day.Read