The Infrastructure Mindset

AI Sycophancy: The Yes-Man Problem There is nothing I have hated more in my career than yes-men engineers.

The Truth is Out There.

The Truth is Out There.

On the Use of the Plural Voice If you’ve read more than a couple of articles on this site, you’ve noticed something: I use “we.”

Prompt Engineering Is Not.

The Building Is on Fire.

Seven Rounds With a Confident Liar Every pattern from The Trust Chasm showed up in one debugging session about a keyboard shortcut.

AI Made Everyone Faster.

The Trust Chasm AI gets more capable and less reliable at the same time.

When Your Operator Can’t Read the Room I built a governance framework for AI agents the same way I’d build one for humans — then discovered why most of it had to be rewritten.

When I removed human code review and let CI gates decide what ships, I moved ten times faster.

The Agent That Didn’t Know Itself A short companion to “The Brilliant Developer, Unreliable Operator” I needed my AI coding agent to behave consistently.

The Brilliant Developer, Unreliable Operator What AI agents taught me about DevOps Changelog 2026-03-20 (R0011 claim verification) Correction: [The culture problem].

Building pymqrest: What I Learned Letting AI Write a Production Library Changelog 2026-03-20 (R0009 claim verification) Correction: [Introduction].

I have tried hard to keep politics out of this blog and I will continue to do so.