Reverse Engineering Your Software Architecture with Claude Code to Help Claude Code
This post first appeared on Nick Tune’s Medium page and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I have been using Claude Code for a variety of purposes, and one thing I’ve realized is that the more it understands about the functionality of the system (the domain, the use cases, the e...
The hard truth about AI scaling is that for most organizations, it isn’t happening. Despite billions in investment, a 2025 report from the MIT NANDA initiative reveals that 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable business impact. This isn’t a technology problem; it’s an org...
The Five Skills I Actually Use Every Day as an AI PM (and How You Can Too)
This post first appeared on Aman Khan’s AI Product Playbook newsletter and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Let me start with some honesty. When people ask me “Should I become an AI PM?” I tell them they’re asking the wrong question. Here’s what I’ve learned: Becoming an AI PM...
This post first appeared on Nick Tune’s Weird Ideas and is being republished here with the author’s permission. A well-crafted system prompt will increase the quality of code produced by your coding assistant. It does make a difference. If you provide guidelines in your system prompt for writing cod...
Evals are having their moment. It’s become one of the most talked-about concepts in AI product development. People argue about it for hours, write thread after thread, and treat it as the answer to every quality problem. This is a dramatic shift from 2024 or even early 2025, when the term was barely...
The following article originally appeared on Mike Amundsen’s Substack Signals from Our Futures Past and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s an old hotel on a windy corner in Chicago where the front doors shine like brass mirrors. Each morning, before guests even reach the...
My father spent his career as an accountant for a major public utility. He didn’t talk about work much; when he engaged in shop talk, it was generally with other public utility accountants, and incomprehensible to those who weren’t. But I remember one story from work, and that story is relevant to o...
Generative AI in the Real World: Aurimas Griciūnas on AI Teams and Reliable AI Systems
SwirlAI founder Aurimas Griciūnas helps tech professionals transition into AI roles and works with organizations to create AI strategy and develop AI systems. Aurimas joins Ben to discuss the changes he’s seen over the past couple years with the rise of generative AI and where we’re headed with agen...
The End of the Sync Script: Infrastructure as Intent
There’s an open secret in the world of DevOps: Nobody trusts the CMDB. The Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is supposed to be the “source of truth”—the central map of every server, service, and application in your enterprise. In theory, it’s the foundation for security audits, cost analysis,...
If You’ve Never Broken It, You Don’t Really Know It
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s a fake confidence you can carry around when you’re learning a new technology. You watch a few videos, skim some docs, get a toy example working, and tell yourself, “Yeah, I’ve got ...
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. This post is a follow-up to a post from last week on the progress of logging. A colleague pushed back on the idea that we’d soon be running code we don’t fully understand. He was skeptical...
Quantum computing (QC) and AI have one thing in common: They make mistakes. There are two keys to handling mistakes in QC: We’ve made tremendous progress in error correction in the last year. And QC focuses on problems where generating a solution is extremely difficult, but verifying it is easy. Thi...