Insights
Engineering writing.
Our founder publishes regularly on engineering, payments, AI, and the long tail of system-building. Below: a curated subset most relevant to the work we sell. The full archive is on Medium.
Selected articles
Most relevant pieces
January 7, 2026
A Lost Computer
On what we used to mean by 'computer' — a device for gathering, processing, and storing information — and what we mean now. A short essay on the drift in computing's center of gravity.
- computing
- perspective
January 5, 2026
Artificial Whatteligence?
Continuing the AI-skeptic series: how an entire field of human knowledge can be made to feel obsolete by the careless redefinition of a single word.
- AI
- language
- perspective
December 31, 2025
Leadership to Insanity
On the working definition of insanity that fits modern business leadership: doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. With examples from engineering management.
- leadership
- management
August 1, 2025
Why I Still Don't Believe in AI
A working programmer's take on the gap between LLM hype and what the technology actually delivers in production. Drawing on twenty years of writing software through several rounds of 'this changes everything.'
- AI
- engineering perspective
- industry
May 31, 2025
It's Impossible to Be Average, and AI Can't Help You
On the statistical fiction of the 'average user' — and why systems designed for that fiction reliably fail real people. Implications for product design and ML system training.
- AI
- product
- design