#engineering-leadership

AI got an order of magnitude faster. Your company got two or three times faster. The gap is not a mystery. It is a measurement problem.

For 25 years we built interfaces for humans. Now we are building them for agents. The web just flipped.

Most enterprise AI investments are compensating for limitations that are about to disappear. When they do, the scaffolding becomes the problem.

AI is confidently wrong some percentage of the time. The skill is not checking every line. It is knowing which lines to check.

Leeloo learned 5,000 years of human history in ten seconds. Your AI can't remember last Tuesday. So Milla Jovovich built an open-source fix.

Prompting did not die. It fragmented into four different skills. Most of us are still practicing only the first one.

AI agents are fast, moderately reliable, and have no sense of direction. The skill they demand most is not technical. It is managerial.

The most productive users of AI are the ones who are best at rejecting its output.

The skill is not solving the problem. It is slicing it. And it applies to far more than code.

The most expensive sentence in 2026 is not 'build this.' It is 'build... something like this, you know what I mean.'

AI changed what we can build. It also changed what we need to know. Here are the six skills that matter now.

AI is not competition. It is rocket fuel. The question is what we finally aim at.