Recent notes on software, products, and the craft of making useful work.
A field report on AI adoption across two engineering organisations in 2026: shipping faster, supporting teams through change, and making time to think.
AI · Engineering Leadership · Software Engineering · Agentic Coding
I rewrote Overpass in Go over a dozen evening couch sessions: learning OSM, building a query and storage engine, and testing agent harnesses along the way.
Go · OpenStreetMap · Overpass · Agentic Coding
Like everyone else, I've been experimenting with agentic coding. It took me out of my regular stack and into Spring, where I found a novel way to query a database — so I rewrote it in Go as a code generator.
Go · Spring · Code Generation · ORM · Agentic Coding
I built the same thing nine times over in completely autonomous agent mode so that you can have one empirical data point on token efficiency, quality and effectiveness of MCPs and skills.
Legacy Code · Philosophy · Lindy Effect
The first 10 years of my career have been focused on building things for the internet. There are other niches who focus WAY more on quality and longetivity of software, I find this strange and intersting and I'm learning from their approach.
Legacy Code · Philosophy · Lindy Effect
AI copilots won’t replace developers—they super-charge prototyping. You should keep adopting the tools, but be wary of the hype and doom.
AI agents · Lindy Effect · Legacy Code
Practical notes on software engineering, AI-assisted development, developer tooling, and the projects I’m building. I send something useful once or twice a month. No noise.