12 min read
Notes on Overnight Software Delivery at Tilt
Notes from my current Tilt workflow: why I run bounded overnight work locally on a MacBook, how the tools fit together, and where human review remains.
Field notes.
Practical notes from backend engineering and building products, plus occasional writing about business, family, and ambition.
Search results.
9 notes for “Engineering”
10 min read
I Think in Compressed Models
Why abstraction helps me connect systems quickly, where compression errors become dangerous, and how I separate creative synthesis from cold validation.
8 min read
Why Memoato Is Becoming a Trustworthy Context Product
What started as a personal memory app is becoming a context layer for people and AI agents, without abandoning the personal product that exposed the real problem.
8 min read
What Reliable Context for AI-Assisted Teams Actually Requires
Giving an AI assistant more text is easy. Giving it current, permitted, traceable, and testable context is an engineering problem.
3 min read
Every AI Coding Workflow Needs a Runbook Layer
Why AI-assisted development gets safer when agents can read the operational runbooks before they make code or deployment decisions.
3 min read
Agent Memory Needs Provenance, Not Vibes
Why agent memory is only useful when every durable fact points back to a source, a date, and a reason it should still be trusted.
4 min read
How I Structure Context for Coding Agents
A practical structure for giving coding agents useful context without turning every task into a giant prompt dump.
4 min read
What PLAYGRND Is Teaching Me About Building Faster With AI
PLAYGRND is my practical example of how a small team can move faster with AI without letting AI replace product and engineering judgment.
5 min read
The AI Agent Problem Is Not the Model. It Is the Context.
Why the long-term advantage in AI-assisted software work is not picking the winning model, but building reliable context systems around any model or tool.