Notes on production AI, the integration substrate around it, and the engineering discipline behind operational software that gets used day after day.
For fifty years we told our tools exactly what to do. Now we tell them what we think and they infer the rest. A field guide to the shift from instruction to judgment.
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Read the post →Five years of architecting a complex SaaS platform, and the slow disappearance of the part of me that wasn't useful to a Jira board.
Read the post →The AI panel bolted onto traditional dashboards has aged poorly. What's replacing it, and what mid-market operators should ask their software vendors next.
Read the post →A Claude integrator builds the operational substrate around Claude — eval suites, audit logs, integrations — so the model does real work safely.
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