Archive
Browse all 17 blog posts organized by publication date
2026
October (1)
- 14 October 2026
The Agent Is Half the System. Six Tests for the Other Half.
The rubric from my In The Loop talk, with enough method that you can run it yourself. Six yes-or-no questions about identity, spend, policy, observability, replay and oversight, scored on a four-point scale.
September (1)
- 2 September 2026
Reading Your People Is a Skill, and It's Mostly Just Paying Attention
Most teams are designed on the assumption that every leader can read their people, and plenty of them can't. Distributed work did not create that problem. It stopped covering for it, and a lot of leaders found out that the office had been doing the work for them.
August (4)
- 27 August 2026
AI Killed Story Points. You Still Need a Date.
Story points were never about complexity. They forced a conversation that used to be expensive, and AI planning made that conversation cheap. Which leaves the harder problem: which of the ceremony's other jobs were ever real, and how you commit to a date once the shield is gone.
- 22 August 2026
High Performers Need Different Feedback, Not Less
Managers stop paying close attention to the people who look like they don't need it. The ones who keep paying attention often only ever name the gaps. Either way a high performer ends up with no idea what good looks like, or whether they are hitting it.
- 11 August 2026
AI Made You Faster. Why Isn't Your Team Faster?
Individual AI productivity gains are real. But they're not compounding at team or org level — and the popular fixes (AI in the docs, AI in the calls) miss the point entirely. You can solve information. You can't solve alignment with a transcript.
- 1 August 2026
Direct the System, Not the Agent
Two respected outlets, the same month, gave leaders opposite advice on AI agents: treat them like employees, or never. Both answered the wrong question. What transfers isn't deciding what an agent is — it's directing the system it sits in.
July (1)
- 23 July 2026
Building Got Cheap. Deciding Didn't.
AI made building software nearly free, but it did nothing for the other two costs in shipping it: deciding what to build, and aligning people around the decision. That's where the money went.
March (2)
- 15 March 2026
Autonomy Without Accountability Is Just Expensive Chaos
The industry is obsessed with building smarter agents. The real gap is the control plane — the infrastructure that makes agents trustworthy, observable, and accountable at scale. Right now, that infrastructure barely exists.
- 8 March 2026
You Can't Prompt Your Way to Judgment
AI is creating leaner teams and faster code, but it's quietly eliminating the conditions that build engineering judgment. The cognitive debt discourse is missing the point — experience debt is the real problem, and it won't show up on any velocity dashboard.
2025
July (3)
- 14 July 2025
The Engineering Shift AI Demands
AI changes the development stack but not the mission. Product engineers who blur the lines between frontend, backend, and infrastructure are essential for building resilient AI systems.
- 10 July 2025
Developer Trust Is Earned, Not Broadcast
Developer trust doesn’t come from big launches or perfect docs. It comes from being in the details, shipping what people ask for, and fixing things when they break. Sailhouse is built that way; in the loop, in the mess, and always improving.
- 4 July 2025
The Autonomous Software Revolution
Discover why workflow orchestrators are choking AI development and how event-driven autonomous agents can reshape the $50B market revolution.
June (2)
- 25 June 2025
The AI Boom Feels Like the Dotcom Era All Over Again
AI is not replacing engineers — it’s giving them new leverage. The builders who understand systems, tradeoffs, and reliability will shape this next wave. Here’s why this era is different, and why it’s time to build.
- 11 June 2025
Event Infrastructure for Modern Systems
AI-native apps generate 50x more events — but most teams are still relying on brittle, legacy infra. Here’s how to modernize your event backbone without breaking everything.
March (1)
- 28 March 2025
Building an Email Confirmation Flow with Sailhouse, Netlify, and Resend
A ready-to-deploy, event-driven email confirmation system built with Sailhouse, Netlify, and Resend that you can set up in minutes and customize to your needs.
2023
June (1)
- 30 June 2023
Taking Gatsby to New Heights: Embracing Adaptability and Openness
A blog post about Gatsby's new approach to framework development, focusing on increased flexibility and openness through the introduction of adapters.
2022
February (1)
- 14 February 2022
Doubling down on the ecosystem: open source and integrations
A blog post about Netlify's commitment to supporting open source projects and ecosystem integrations, focusing on sustainability and collaboration in web development.