AI and Human Collaboration
The interesting future is not AI alone or humans pretending nothing changed. It is hybrid systems where human judgement, taste and responsibility combine with machine scale.
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Becoming a Cyborg
Working with AI is not just faster coding. The real shift is recursive workflow improvement: small frictions become small tools, and those tools make the next loop easier.
Before You Unleash the AI, De-Complect the Problem
AI makes feature soup cheap. Before asking an agent to build, run a quick de-complect review: name the concepts, split only the ones that vary independently, and demand proof that any extra moving part helps.
The Hickeyian Way
Before adding machinery, ask which ideas have been tied together that should vary independently. Split those first, then build the smallest proof that the split made the system easier to reason about.
When AI Lets You Hit The Technical Debt Wall Faster
AI agents made JobDone move quickly, but the useful lesson was not speed. The bugs showed where the product truth and architecture were drifting, and that became the signal to stop patching symptoms and design a cleaner Local Replica boundary.