Articles

Your Best AI Coding Partner Is the One Least Like You

Why AI pair programming is a team-composition problem, and the right partner supplies the engineering temperament you keep skipping. You are choosing betwee...

Part of the “AI-Era Coding: From Speed to Mastery” series

Tool: Does Your AI Cover Your Blind Spots or Multiply Them?

AI Feels Human Because You Have to Talk to It

You ask, you explain, you catch yourself saying thanks. Talking is the only way to use AI, and talking is a social act. That is why AI feels so human. You c...

Part of the “Understanding AI by Understanding the Interface” series

Tool: Is Your Trust in AI Backed by Evidence?

You're Not Underpricing. You're Subsidizing.

The classic signs you're undercharging clients all point to one cause: operational work you carry every month that your invoice prices at zero. The proposal...

Part of the “Pricing AI Work: From Token Bills to Captured Value” series

Tool: Are You Undercharging Clients?

Your Quality Drops. Your Odds of a Hit Go Up.

You're shipping more with AI and at least half of it can feel like slop. That feeling is correct, and it's also the reason your odds of a hit just went up. ...

Part of the “Getting Past Your Own Reasons Not to Ship” series

Tool: When you ship, what do you get back?

AI Sounds Like Someone Thought It Through. No One Did.

It reasons, argues, and sometimes sounds afraid. None of it comes from anyone with something to lose. I run a lot of my thinking through these tools now. Dr...

Part of the “Understanding AI by Understanding the Interface” series

Product Managers Are About to Be Found Out

Most product work is language, and AI just learned to produce the language without the judgment underneath. The product manager most exposed is the one who c...

Part of the “What AI Changed About Being Good at Your Job” series

Tool: Is AI coming for your PM job?

Why We Accept AI Code but Not AI Writing

You use AI for code without thinking twice. When the same AI writes text, something feels wrong. The reason is simpler than you'd expect. A developer commit...

Tool: Does your AI-assisted work need disclosure?

Work Hard vs Work Smart: Pick One, Lose Both

Two gospels, two fictional heroes, and a false choice that quietly stalls you whichever side you pick. One hero tells you nothing beats outworking everyone,...

Tool: What Is Quietly Stalling Your Work?

Settled Before AI Ever Showed Up

No filter saves a badly captured photo, and AI treats your product the same way, multiplying the competitive advantage you already had, or the lack of one. ...

Part of the “The AI-Era Product Strategy Reading Path” series

Tool: Is AI multiplying an advantage or exposing a weak core?

The Tokenmaxxing Equation: AI ROI Was Never About the Tokens

Your model bill keeps climbing, you still can't tell if the output is worth it, and the number everyone is arguing about was never the one that decides AI RO...

Part of the “Pricing AI Work: From Token Bills to Captured Value” series