The methodology, in public

Writing.

Incident post-mortems, architecture decisions, and AI-as-collaborator notes from running PRIVATEBYTE. The shipping notes I'd want to read if someone else were doing the work — and the verifiable record behind the rest of this site.

4 notes  published

2026
Friction Was the Point

AI may not replace us through competition, but through attrition — the slow erosion of the friction that makes us capable.

Eighty percent.

Four of every five lines of code I ship are driven through Claude Code or Codex. The methodology, in detail.

Moving at the Speed of Articulation

Software now moves at the speed of articulation. The new engineer.

How I got here.

Sysadmin, then cybersecurity, then frontend, then backend, now agentic engineer. The compounding.

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The work behind the writing.