I build modern intelligence capabilities and write about AI-native operating models, enterprise strategy, leadership, and the future of software and data teams.
Someone built a coffee shop you order from via SSH. Not a joke. Not a demo. A real business called terminal.shop. You type ssh terminal.shop and you can buy coffee from your command line. If that…
Last weekend I built a personal finance app. It took a few hours. I used an AI coding assistant, talked through what I wanted, and by Sunday evening I had something that covers about 90% of what I’d…
What if everything we know about enterprise software design is about to become obsolete? For forty+ years, we’ve built systems around a single assumption: humans need interfaces to accomplish tasks.…
Everyone’s racing to build AI that shops for you. I think they’re solving the wrong problem. Over the past few months, I’ve been watching the agentic commerce space explode. OpenAI partnered with…
I recently wrote about how AI coding assistants are changing the build vs. buy equation, arguing that the traditional “buy first” approach is becoming outdated. But theory is one thing, practice is…
Most technical people — whether they’re building software, managing infrastructure, designing data pipelines, or optimizing algorithms — focus heavily on mastering the tools and frameworks of their…
We’ve all been there. An organization is stuck in legacy, processes are inefficient, and it takes an army of people to get things don. The solution? Buy a tool. And not just any tool — a SaaS product…
For most of my career, the build vs. buy decision in software has leaned heavily toward buy, especially in the enterprise. It is understandable. Buy is faster. Buy is safer. Buy comes with support,…