Written for leaders who must set rules and fund work: how capability, risk, and organizational reality interact, and what that implies for standards, oversight, and adoption. Content is grounded in practice and informed by primary research.

Policy

• Building a High-Agency Workforce March 2026 AI intensifies work and your best engineers are the most likely to leave. How to retain high-agency software engineers, prevent developer burnout, and invest in junior talent.
• A Context Engineering Investment Framework March 2026 A framework for allocating your time and attention across AI tooling and workflows: Rules, Commands, Skills, Hooks, and Subagents.

Fundamentals

• The Future of Context Engineering February 2026 The human brain faced many of the same constraints that limit today's large language models. This essay builds a framework for the direction LLMs will evolve by examining how the brain solved those problems first.
• Shell Theory: A Model That Explains When AI Replaces Programmers January 2026 AI raises everyone's baseline but creates a gap between those it amplifies and those it replaces. Shell Theory explains why the answer depends on agency, not just experience.

Blogs

• The Junior Developer of the Future March 2026 AI is taking entry-level tasks, not entry-level careers. Why agency, not experience, determines whether junior developers are replaced or amplified.
• A Theoretical View on ‘Something Big is Happening’ February 2026 Why viral AI narratives deserve more scrutiny, not less—especially when they are written with the very technology they celebrate.

Recommended readings

• The Bitter Lesson Essential reading for anyone designing solutions: a concise argument for why general methods that leverage computation consistently outperform hand-crafted approaches. Rich Sutton

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Tech Lead on the AI & Innovation team at Suitsupply; opinions here are my own.