Matt Spitz

Last week, I wrote that the lower cost and time to build software due to AI-powered developer tools will result in so much software being built that had no business existing in the first place.

I’ve recently been cranking on improvements to this site and a personal blog with Claude Code, and boy howdy, developing with AI is fun.

In July, I joined two of my cousins and two of their friends on a 500-mile ride from Target Field in Minneapolis to Wrigley Field in Chicago over the course of a week.

In my advisory work, a common question I get from leaders goes something like, “how do I get my engineering team to care about [customers, shipping faster, quality]?”

As much as I enjoy writing software, I generally won’t unless I have a particular problem to solve, even if it’s a manufactured and silly problem to solve.

Of course, you can’t spell Matt Spitz without AI.

From April to June this year, I rode my bicycle across the United States, from Washington DC to the Oregon coast.

Earlier this month, I rode from Crescent City to San Francisco.

I like to frame employee retention as tent stakes.

It’s been about a decade since I’d relaunched this site on Jekyll, and the poor thing needed a visual refresh.

I spent a lot of time at the West Portal library branch growing up, and when I went inside a few months ago for old time’s sake, the man behind the desk offered me a San Francisco Public Library Explorer Map.

Every few years, I update a document that lists my values, my modus operandi, and a few fun facts.