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Writing
Short essays on architecture, agentic AI, and the decisions that actually cost money. Published here first, then on LinkedIn. RSS.
October 15, 2026
In one assessment, a third of the application estate had no owner. You don't migrate that. You retire it.
October 13, 2026
The subscriptions and policies are the easy part. A landing zone is really an agreement about who owns what.
October 8, 2026
I architected an EMR holding 250+ patient records, and it changed where I put the human.
October 6, 2026
The most important design decision in an enterprise AI system isn't the model.
October 1, 2026
An ad hoc note I was inspired to write. A conversation with people who think about building, and the one habit that lets you talk to a CTO and an engineer in the same hour without lying to either.
October 1, 2026
I've built dashboards that got applause and then quietly became the most expensive thing in the system.
September 29, 2026
A PostgreSQL escalation, a room full of confident theories, and why we refused to resize first.
September 24, 2026
The one question that separates real AI projects from expensive demos.
September 22, 2026
$4.5M in cost avoidance without touching a price sheet. The savings weren't in negotiating; they were in noticing.
September 17, 2026
A performance problem nobody could reproduce across 1,000+ tenant databases, and why the fix was written rules, not a bigger tier.
September 15, 2026
Most agent demos work. Most agent systems don't. The four things nobody demos are the whole difference.