Notes

Short field notes on system shape, product decisions, and the small implementation details that either clarify a workflow or quietly make it worse.

mar 14, 2026engineeringaiautomationdocumentation

Building an automatic training material writer for sample tracking

Built an agent skill that reads Jira, Confluence, Slack, E2E tests, and PR history to generate and maintain training documentation for a sample tracking platform.

mar 14, 2026nextjswebdevengineeringwebgpu

Building this site with GSD: seven milestones of agent-driven development

Shipped a personal portfolio site across seven milestones using GSD v2 — from static Astro on GitHub Pages to Next.js 16 with server-side auth, a handmade WebGPU shader, and an AI agent writing the journal entry you're reading.

mar 10, 2026opinionengineering

Systems over abstractions

The abstraction usually is not the problem; the missing system boundary is.

mar 9, 2026opinionengineering

Keep the path explicit

A surprising amount of delivery friction comes from pretending the route is obvious when it is not.