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The Cry Was Not an Incident

New parents can instrument a nursery like a production system. The danger is the on-call mind: every cry as a signal, every nap as a metric, and care slowly learning the grammar of incident response.

July 14, 2026 · essay · 8 min · parenting · software · measurement · attention · ai

No One at the Next Desk

AI-native startups can now begin with one founder and many agents, but the missing early teammate may be the human witness who catches bad taste, bad assumptions, and dangerous commands.

July 10, 2026 · essay · 8 min · startups · ai-agents · work · software

What the Agent Can't Guess

Coding agents are making specs matter again: not as old process theater, but as the durable statement of intent that generated code must prove or betray.

July 9, 2026 · essay · 8 min · software · ai · coding-agents · spec-driven-development