There’s a tension at the heart of building products with AI that nobody talks about enough: AI is fundamentally about sharing and connecting data, but some of the best products are built on the principle of not sharing data. Calendrz, the calendar mirroring tool I’ve been building, is one of those products. Its core promise […]
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How AI Wrote Seven Blog Posts for My Product in Forty Minutes
Last week I sat down to write a content marketing plan for Calendrz. Seven blog posts, each targeting a different audience segment, each with a matching LinkedIn teaser. The kind of work that would normally take me a solid two or three days of writing, editing, second-guessing, and procrastinating. It took about forty minutes. And […]
AI Engineering: Doing the Right Thing vs Doing the Thing Right — And Why It Matters
Peter Drucker coined the phrase “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing“. While this quote is about management vs leadership, it can be easily translated into engineering especially nowadays to separate 10X’ers from the rest. Remember when you spent three weeks refactoring that authentication system to use the “proper” design patterns, […]
AI-Generated Code and the Trust Factor
I’ve been invited recently to a roundtable discussion with other engineering leaders in Austin (big thanks to Jordan Kelly for organizing this!) where we discussed how is AI affecting the engineering teams — from the structure, to the way they operate, to morale and so on. One emerging theme throughout these conversations was the level […]





