Six moves to become an AI-native company: one gateway, a company brain, a shared harness, a self-improving loop, model routing, and autonomous agents on top.
Sidekick runs every task on the biggest model at the highest effort. Fixing that takes more than a router — spend visibility, a reviewable routing table, IAM ceilings, and the quality signals FinOps can't see.
Uber burned a year's AI coding budget in four months, then capped it by hand. The fix was never a spending cap — it's the boring routing layer most teams never build.
A side project that became a real tool, then a harness teams configure — ticket analysis, CI triage, and PR review running unattended on CI. What broke, what got told no, what shipped.
Why AI coding tools feel demoralizing — and the context engineering changes that turn the average interaction from frustrating to reliable.
AI tools made me more productive than ever, and introduced a new kind of career anxiety I wasn't prepared for.