AI has made every individual step of building a product faster: research, requirements, documentation, prototyping. It has not yet made the product faster to build. The gap between those two facts is …
23 Million Horses Lost Their Jobs at the Peak of Demand
Every time someone worries AI will shrink their industry, someone else reaches for Jevons paradox. The argument: when something gets more efficient, people don't use less of it, they use more. Cheaper …
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Always Measuring the Wrong Thing
Bryan O'Neill, CTO of FormAssembly, wrote a piece tracing three decades of the same mistake: - In the 1990s, some companies paid engineers per line of code, and got bloated, unmaintainable software …
The T-Shaped Professional in the Age of AI — Video Essay
I wrote a six-part series on the T-shaped professional and why the profile matters more in the age of AI than it did before. This is the video version: the same argument, made in eight minutes. Most …
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The T-Shaped Advantage
The usual case for t-shaped skills is made in terms of optionality: the more domains you know something about, the more flexible you are, the more roles are available to you. This is true but not the …
Rebuilding Your T
When a technical leader decides they need to "build broader skills," the usual move is predictable. They sign up for a course. They read a book on the adjacent discipline. They add a few keywords to …