AI and Software Engineering

AI has changed what it means to write software. Code generation is being commoditized. The hard problems — coordination, verification, architectural judgment, organizational alignment — are not. The bottleneck has moved, but it hasn’t disappeared.

I’ve been tracking this shift closely from both an engineering and leadership perspective: what AI tools actually change about delivery, where the verification and coordination costs accumulate, and what the role of the software engineer looks like in an AI-first world.

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Mar 5, 2026
The Pull Request is Dead: Surviving the AI Code Avalanche
Code production is no longer our bottleneck. The newfound velocity of AI coding agents hasn't solved our problems; it has simply moved the bottleneck further down the pipeline, creating massive SDLC backpressure. The human "Looks Good To Me" on a PR is now the single biggest liability in deployment. It’s time to stop acting like typists and start acting like architects.
Jan 16, 2026
AI Made Coding Cheap. Coordination Is Still Expensive
AI dramatically accelerated individual coding and local execution. End-to-end delivery barely moved. We optimized leaf-node execution but left the tree structure completely manual. Business intent (“add fraud detection”) decomposes into tasks across teams, each carrying implicit assumptions that only conflict during integration. Performance budgets, data freshness requirements, and retry semantics remain undiscovered until week 8 of 10. AI can breeze through well-defined tasks with deterministic verification. But getting from business requirement to that well-defined task? That’s where projects die.
Sep 6, 2025
The Death of the Mobile Developer: AI Is Quietly Eating the App Store
Mobile apps ruled the last decade, but AI is quietly dismantling the foundations they were built on. From declining iOS and Android job postings to LLM interfaces replacing entire app flows, this piece argues the golden age of mobile development is over and what comes next might not even run on iOS or Android.