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Notes on developer relations, AI tooling, and building things worth using.

Opinions are strictly mine. They don't represent my employer in any capacity.

September 17, 2026·9 min

Context Engineering Ate Prompt Engineering

The job that paid $300K in 2023 quietly disappeared. What replaced it is bigger, harder, and nobody has a title for it yet.

September 15, 2026·11 min

The Founder Pattern Our Ecosystem Quietly Rewards

The serial-dabbler who calls it 'ecosystem building,' shouts about values, funds a lifestyle on the company card, and keeps pitching a pivot into whichever consumer market is currently owned by a decade-old public company. I've worked for this person. So have you.

September 14, 2026·6 min

Introducing DevPulse: An Open-Source Developer Engagement Tracker

Because DevRel teams deserve real metrics, not spreadsheet theatre.

September 14, 2026·7 min

The FDE Playbook I Kept Rebuilding — So I Open-Sourced It

Why every forward-deployed AI engagement rebuilds the same scaffolding, and what fde-agent-starter packages up so you don't have to

August 14, 2026·5 min

Why I Built OpenQuant India

An open-source Python stack for people who write code, care about Indian markets, and are tired of backtests that only tell them the happy half of the story.

April 29, 2026·4 min

The $14.7 Billion EdTech Giant That AI Erased Overnight

The most dramatic business obituary of the AI era isn't a sci-fi story. It happened in plain sight and most people missed the lesson inside it.

February 11, 2026·9 min

AI + Blockchain: The Honest Postmortem

The pitch decks promised a decade of transformation. Here's why nobody uses any of it — and why 'sovereignty' isn't the reason people say it is.

January 21, 2026·9 min

Autonomous Coding Agents Are Here: What Now?

Going beyond the demo—how to live, build, and merge when agents are shipping code in production

January 7, 2026·8 min

2026 Predictions: the Ones I'm Actually Betting On

No trends, no vibes—just specific, falsifiable predictions for AI and dev tools in 2026

November 18, 2025·11 min

2025 Year in Review: What Actually Mattered

Written in November, because December reviews miss the point — you're too busy surviving the holidays to think clearly

October 14, 2025·9 min

The Death of the Tutorial (and What Comes Next)

AI coding assistants are making step-by-step tutorials obsolete. Here's what DevRel teams need to build instead

September 9, 2025·11 min

The Founder-Cto Split: Lessons from the Trenches

What I learned watching dozens of startups navigate the hardest co-founder dynamic in tech