Strategic insights on technology leadership, engineering culture, and building great teams
AI is creating leaner teams and faster code, but it's quietly eliminating the conditions that build engineering judgment. The cognitive debt discourse is missing the point — experience debt is the real problem, and it won't show up on any velocity dashboard.
AI changes the development stack but not the mission. Product engineers who blur the lines between frontend, backend, and infrastructure are essential for building resilient AI systems.
Developer trust doesn’t come from big launches or perfect docs. It comes from being in the details, shipping what people ask for, and fixing things when they break. Sailhouse is built that way; in the loop, in the mess, and always improving.