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Engineering8 min readYou can build anything with AI now, so everyone is. I've been testing what they ship, and the same gaps keep showing up, no way to delete your account, privacy policies that never mention what the vendors do with your data, and welcome emails that break mid-sentence on a phone. Here is what finishing a product properly still takes.
- AI Slop
- Product Quality
- Data Rights
Engineering7 min readI joined Constant Contact to lead a team building a brand-new email editor. It never found customers, so we repurposed it into Rise, the platform that now powers the whole product for over 150 developers shipping code twice a day.
- Constant Contact
- Platform
- Leadership
Engineering6 min readA dementia-care app was spiking on the idea trackers, and it hit close to home, so I downloaded it. The developer's own email was hardcoded into the login, the settings were placeholders, and the data policy was a 404. Here is what that taught me about shipping AI slop, and why it left me strangely hopeful.
- AI Slop
- Product Quality
- Customer Empathy
Engineering6 min readI spent a whole career sharpening my craft, and then AI came along and made a big chunk of it stop mattering. This is my honest account of the identity crisis that followed, the token-budget hangover that grounded me, and trying to find my balance in an industry that moved on.
- AI-Assisted Development
- Software Craftsmanship
- Career
Engineering4 min readI spent two months building something in a silo, sure I understood the vision. The demo died in under a minute. What I actually got wrong was not the code. It was the customer.
- Customer Empathy
- Feedback Loops
- Learning from Failure
Engineering4 min readAt eighteen I was handed a zero-to-one iPad app in a language I'd never touched, wired to a SOAP service that did not forgive typos. The real lesson wasn't Objective-C. It was how much you can figure out when there's no one left to hand the problem to.
- First Software Job
- Imposter Syndrome
- Shipping Your First App
Engineering5 min readAI is very good at making sure you never hit a wall, which sounds like a win until you notice what you didn't learn on the way around it. I'm one of the engineers letting their judgement atrophy, and here's my plan to stay sharp.
- AI-Assisted Development
- Software Craftsmanship
- Technical Debt
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