Microsoft is offering buyouts to around 60,000 people as AI spending climbs. Why I think buyouts are a blunt instrument, and why the real prize for any company reshaping itself for AI is the speed of its decisions.
Posts Tagged: AI
Stop Asking Your AI Agent Nicely: Put the Rules in Code
Sentry’s David Cramer argues prompts are rarely the way to make AI agents behave. I agree: the rules that matter belong in code, as I learnt building Calendrz.
The opposite of AI slop: the agent that reads our production logs every night
While LinkedIn fights AI slop, an AI agent has quietly opened 42 merged fix PRs at Calendrz by reading production logs at 3 a.m. Here’s how it avoids producing slop of its own.
Bootstrapping All the Way Up: Build the System That Builds the System
The C compiler compiled itself. We have been bootstrapping for fifty years. AI just gave the loop a fast enough clock that building the system that builds the system finally compounds inside a single career.
Stop Building Systems. Build the System That Builds Them.
We have always measured engineering orgs by what they ship. That was a proxy. The real asset is the loop that produces it — and AI just changed its clock speed.
Ideas Were Never Cheap. Execution Just Got Free.
For most of a founder’s career, the most expensive thing they owned wasn’t money — it was patience. AI just refunded the tax, and that inverts the oldest cliche in startups.
20 Years of liviutudor.com: From ‘New Error’ to AI Era
Twenty years ago, a blank WordPress editor blinked at me. I typed something about “the dawn of a new era” and then immediately bracketed it with a joke: “(or maybe I should spell it as ‘the dawn of a new error’ ?)”. I had no idea how prophetic that would turn out to be. Not […]
Agents, MCP, and what a 19-hour build changed about how I think
The Calendrz Smart Scheduler went from first commit to default-enabled in production in 19 hours. Here’s the architecture — manual agent loop, 13 scheduler tools mirroring 30 MCP tools, prompt caching on two breakpoints — and the meta-story about AI-assisted coding compressing what used to be a sprint into a day.
Voice + MCP: The Interface That Finally Kills the Dashboard
In my previous post, I argued that UIs are becoming optional: that MCP turns your AI assistant into an IDE where every product is just a plugin. But that post still assumed you’re sitting at a keyboard, typing prompts into a chat window. Take the keyboard away. Now what? Voice changes the equation entirely. MCP […]
UIs Are Becoming Optional — MCP and the End of the Dashboard Era
For decades, the way we interact with software has followed the same pattern: someone builds an interface, and we learn to use it. We click buttons, navigate menus, fill out forms. Every new tool means a new UI to master, a new set of conventions to internalize, a new cognitive load to carry. That era […]
