Hey, I'm Scott.

I've been working in technology for the past 20 years, with roles across engineering, product, and GTM. Most recently I built and ran the AI and Platform Engineering/Solutions/Operations for a hedgefund.

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Unicorns Don't Scale: Systems Do

July 22, 2026

The Forward Deployed Engineer is the hottest job in AI because one person holding customer, product, and code context loses the least on the way from idea to implementation. But you can't hire a building full of unicorns. You build the system that doesn't need them.

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Synthetic Personas: Tireless, Opinionated, and Average

June 22, 2026

Real customer conversations are irreplaceable. But synthetic personas — tireless, opinionated, and average — are how I keep the idea funnel full and a feedback loop running at the speed AI development now moves.

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"Just Ask Claude" Is Not a Strategy: Learning to Love Spec-Anchored Development

June 14, 2026

Most answers to 'how do I get AI to ship code that works' are variations on TDD. Here's why spec-anchored development — a living spec next to the code, gated by a PM agent — is the approach that finally stuck.

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The AI Software Factory Powering Your Next Reorg

June 8, 2026

In a world where code is cheap and AI is plentiful, the traditional design of your technology organization is ready for disruption. Are you ready for the AI Software Factory of the future?

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Building with Autonomous Agents: A Very Efficient Way to Be Wrong

June 1, 2026

The path to autonomous coding, and why verification, not autonomy, is the real problem.

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The Invisible Hand of Dario: What Anthropic's Subsidy Cuts Mean for Event-Driven AI

May 19, 2026

The free lunch on subsidized agentic workloads is over. Here's how the end of cheap Opus-on-cron forces a shift toward event-driven architectures, smarter model selection, and vendor-neutral memory layers.

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The Age of AI Testing

April 10, 2026

We've never generated so much code — or so much bad code. The real challenge isn't writing more, it's building the processes to separate signal from noise and graduate experiments into production-grade systems.

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AI Won't Kill Developer Jobs — But It Will Change Them

March 11, 2026

Everyone's sure AI will replace someone else's job. But what's actually happening in software development tells a very different story — one about more code, more complexity, and a shift in what it means to be an engineer.

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When Your MCP Server Breaks Everything: A Tale of API Versioning

July 28, 2025

When an MCP server ships a breaking API change, entire AI workflows can come crashing down. Learn from the hard-won lessons of REST API versioning and discover three practical strategies to prevent your MCP server from becoming the next workflow-breaking villain.

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MCP: The New API Layer for AI

July 4, 2025

If you've ever spent weeks integrating an AI tool with your API, only to watch it break when you update a single endpoint, you'll understand why MCP caught my attention.

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