Topic

Systems

• AI-Generated Legacy

  The old version of this problem took decades to form. AI can hand it to you in months: something important that runs, and nobody left who understands it.

  5 min read

• Framers vs. Gamers

  You can get very good at a game someone else designed, or you can shape the game itself. Most people never notice there’s a difference.

  5 min read

• Rebuilding a system that only worked because people remembered how

  A system that worked only because a few people remembered how, then rebuilt so the knowledge lived in the infrastructure, not in anyone’s head. (It happened to be a malware-scanning fleet; the shape is one every business has.)

  Systems and infrastructure