Category: AI

Your team is shipping faster than ever. The question is whether they understand what they shipped. Comprehension debt is the growing gap between code…

First Principles of AI Usage — Part 9 AI is a multiplier. The thing it multiplies is you. That framing has a sharp implication most…

First Principles of AI Usage — Part 8 AI produces fluent output. That is the problem. When an AI response is well-structured, confidently phrased, and…

First Principles of AI Usage — Part 7 Constraints make AI better. This is counterintuitive. Most teams assume that giving an AI system more access,…

First Principles of AI Usage — Part 6 Ninety percent of engineering teams now use AI. Only 23% extract meaningful productivity gains from it. That…

First Principles of AI Usage — Part 5 I asked an AI agent to build a procedurally generated terrain system for a Godot video…

First Principles of AI Usage — Part 4 Amazon’s Kiro AI agent caused a 13-hour AWS outage by deleting and recreating a production environment.…

First Principles of AI Usage — Part 3 AI did not make your job easier. It expanded what is possible for you to accomplish,…

First Principles of AI Usage — Part 2 AI does not know what is true. It knows what is statistically probable. This distinction is…

First Principles of AI Usage — Part 1 The quality of your AI output is bounded by the quality of context you provide. Not…