My writing on software, AI, and product systems

The Machine That Agrees With You

If emotional intelligence helps us use AI well, it also has to protect us from being seduced by it.

Prompting Is Context Engineering, Not Magic

A good prompt does not trick an AI model into being smart. It builds the temporary world the model has to reason inside.

The AI Skill We're Undervaluing

Emotional intelligence may become one of the most important ways humans learn to work with machines.

We Need to Start Talking to AI Like It Thinks

We now have machines that do not merely execute instructions. They participate in reasoning. Not perfectly, not independently, not in some mystical human-equivalent sense - but enough that the mode of interaction has fundamentally changed.

The Glass Wall in Global Tech Pay

Remote work made hiring global, but compensation still hits a border. A Melbourne-versus-US comparison shows how same-team pay can diverge sharply even after accounting for super and employer payroll costs.

Proxy Coding (formerly known as "Vibe Coding")

An intentful, workplace-ready substitute for the stigmatizing "vibe coding" paradigm

Guild Driven Development: The Review Guild Model for AI enabled development

When a small group can produce large volumes of AI-assisted change, trust becomes the constraint. Guild Driven Development makes review the control surface that keeps systems coherent.

Seamless AI Agent Thread Transitions: A Debugging Success Story

How I successfully transitioned context between AI agents to solve a complex Sailfish test discovery issue, turning a long debugging session into a collaborative success.

Building Work Relationships

Building positive work relationships is not only the way to be more effective, its necessary for being a leader and getting ahead.

Iterative Planning

Iterative planning in software development offers a robust framework for delivering products that are not only high in quality but also aligned with customer needs and market demands.

Need-Driven Conversations

Time can be an expensive commodity - so sometimes it pays to focus on the need before anything else

Incremental Changes

Making small, incremental changes to your software speeds up delivery and improves product surviability

AI-first API design

Artificial Intelligence has taken a leap - and our APIs need to be ready for it

The Parallels Between Biological Evolution and Software Development

Software development and biological evolution share a lot in common, so much that we can distil and apply useful principles

Crafting Friendly yet Effective Pull Requests

A Guide for Making Code Reviews Easier for you and your Peers

How did matter scatter across the universe?

If the Big Bang took only milliseconds to disperse all the galaxies light years apart, then how did the matter get there faster than the speed of light?

A Future with Artifical Intelligence

What does a future with AI look like?

Why are descriptive statistics of a distribution called "moments"?

Syntax behind sorted(key=lambda: ...)

A record of a semi-popular stack overflow answer I gave to a question

Error building mdx page with NextJS in github actions

I encountered an annoying error when building a nextJS app that uses nextMDX using github actions

Name, PhD - or is that too much?

I once had someone ask me what I thought about using my PhD title in my profile name because they were wondering if they should as well

Generic Abstractions in ASP.NET core using MediatR

An abstraction pattern to simplify the creation of new endpoints that have the same base abstract logic

Iterations on the Palavyr API - Part 3

Part 3: Applying SOLID for a clean file management abstraction

Iterations on the Palavyr API - Part 2

Part 2: Palavyr Persistence Abstractions

Iterations on the Palavyr API - Part 1

Part 1: The three phases of the Palavyr API surface

To use Autowired properties or not - that is the question

Autowired properties in Autofac are tempting, but are they a good idea?