vi. Writing
Notes from the work.
Field notes and longer essays on what we’ve learned running senior-led AI engagements. No hype. No predictions. Just patterns we keep seeing.
Field note · 9 min · 28 April 2026
A five-dimension framework for AI readiness.
Why a single 'AI maturity score' is useless, and what we assess in a one-week benchmark instead.
Essay · 12 min · 12 April 2026
Why senior engineers are the hardest to upskill on AI.
Twenty years of building deterministic systems makes the new way of working harder, not easier.
Field note · 8 min · 22 March 2026
How we structure a 12-week AI engineering engagement.
A walkthrough of what gets done in week one, week six, and the hand-off.
Field note · 4 min · 8 February 2026
The board wants AI. The team is exhausted. Now what.
A short pattern for engineering leaders caught between a mandate and a morale dip.