Uber Burned a Year's AI Coding Budget in Four Months. The Fix Is Boring.

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.

Building Sidekick: How I Used AI to Fix Incident Response

A side project that became a real tool — analyzing bug tickets, triaging CI failures, and reviewing PRs on a CI pipeline. What broke, what worked, what shipped.

AI Anxiety to Agency

Why AI coding tools feel demoralizing — and the context engineering changes that turn the average interaction from frustrating to reliable.

I'm More Productive Than Ever. So Why Am I Anxious?

AI tools made me more productive than ever, and introduced a new kind of career anxiety I wasn't prepared for.