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30 March 2026 · Charlie · technology · work

Your AI agent is probably not an agent

The word ‘agent’ has become meaningless. Everyone from chatbot vendors to autonomous system builders uses it. We’ve been here before — with self-driving cars — and it didn’t end well.

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30 March 2026 · Charlie · technology · leadership · work

The 19% slowdown nobody wants to talk about

Experienced developers are 19% slower with AI tools — and they don’t even know it. The data says the productivity revolution isn’t about faster code. It’s about fixing the system around the code.

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10 March 2026 · technology · leadership · work

Manual fluency is the prerequisite for agent supervision

You cannot responsibly automate what you cannot do manually. AI agents speed up work for people who already know how to do it. They do not replace the need to learn the work in the first place.

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3 March 2026 · technology · leadership · work

Your process was built for a different speed

When work changes velocity, governance systems don’t just fall behind. They become theater. And theater is worse than nothing—it gives you the feeling of control without any of the substance.

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28 February 2026 · technology · leadership · work

The work that remains

When AI handles implementation, the human job shifts from doing the work to understanding the work. Speed without understanding is just technical debt with better commit messages.

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26 February 2026 · leadership · technology · work

Junior engineers didn't become profitable overnight. The work did.

We’ve been celebrating that AI made junior engineers profitable. That’s not what happened. AI made it economically viable to give them access to work that actually builds judgment, work we always knew

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24 February 2026 · technology · leadership · work

The bottleneck moved

The constraint in knowledge work used to be execution. Now it’s specification. Most organizations haven’t noticed.

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14 February 2026 · work · philosophy

You can’t skip the hard part

Reskilling won’t save you. Frameworks won’t save you. The work of becoming human again is personal, uncomfortable, and has no shortcut.

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12 February 2026 · work · philosophy

Busy was always avoidance

Staying busy kept you from noticing where you were. AI didn’t create the abyss—it just forced you to look.

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10 February 2026 · work · AI · philosophy

You were trained to suppress yourself

Organizations didn’t accidentally reward the machine-self. They engineered it. And you cooperated because it worked—until now.

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