Thinking out loud
Writings
Sharing my thoughts on intelligent automation, agentic AI, and the future of work.
Full disclosure: these first eight essays are AI-written placeholders while my own writing takes shape — each piece carries its authorship label.
Agents at the Door
Software used to wait for instructions. Now it knocks and asks for work — and the org chart isn’t ready.
4 minStandard read
The Last Manual Step
I automated my own job one step at a time. What refused to disappear was the point.
2 minQuick read
The Cartography of Work
Before you can automate anything, you have to draw a map of it — and every map of work is a small act of fiction.
11 minDeep dive
In Praise of Boring Software
The systems that keep civilisation running are profoundly dull — and dullness is the hardest feature to build.
4 minStandard read
What I Tell Juniors Now
The bottom rungs of the career ladder are being automated away. Here is what I say to the people who were about to stand on them.
2 minQuick read
Automation Is a Moral Position
Every automation decision is a decision about what human beings will spend their lives doing. We should talk like it.
4 minStandard read
Coexisting with Machines That Think
The question was never whether machines would take the work. It is what we owe each other once thinking becomes abundant.
11 minDeep dive
The Ladder of Singularity
Forget the cliff-edge picture of AI. We are climbing a ladder, rung by rung, and it pays to know which rung you are standing on.
4 minStandard read