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When Code Is Commodity, What Still Makes Us Valuable? (opens on Substack)
AI put me back in builder mode — and made me ask what remains distinctly ours when writing software gets cheap.
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Writing
Thinking out loud
Most of my writing starts with a question about software or leadership and ends somewhere more human. Other posts begin with a book, a conversation, or a thought that refuses to leave me alone.
Monday Muse is where I collect these explorations. It lives on Substack; the essays below open there.
Technology & AI
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AI Text Watermarking Is a Terrible Idea (opens on Monday Muse, Substack)
Model providers are starting to watermark generated text. Why I think that's the wrong answer to a real question.
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As AI Narrows Tooling Knowledge Gaps, Should You Specialize or Be a Generalist? (opens on Monday Muse, Substack)
Does it still make sense to ask for "5+ years of Python" when more and more code is co-written by AI?
Leadership & Work
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You Used to Get Promoted by Managing More People. Not Anymore. (opens on Monday Muse, Substack)
For decades, organizations rewarded scale. A look at what leadership growth means when headcount stops being the measure.
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AI Blew Up the Economics of Entry-Level Work — and It Should Terrify Senior Leaders (opens on Monday Muse, Substack)
What happens to the next generation of experts when the work that used to train them disappears.
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How to Lead Engineers Who No Longer Believe the Company Story (opens on Monday Muse, Substack)
If your leadership plan is mission statements and company vision, you're about to have a hard year.
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How to Survive Constant Reorgs (opens on Monday Muse, Substack)
Every restructure is a rollercoaster of anxiety, expectation, disappointment and resignation. Some ways to stay steady.
This is a small, hand-picked selection. All issues on Substack — or follow Monday Muse to get new essays by email.