Vol. I · No. 1 · Montreal
Herman.
Watching AI change everything, in real time, and writing it down.
Tag · 7 pieces

#hitchhikers-guide

Every essay in the dispatch tagged with hitchhikers-guide, in reverse chronological order.

All agentic-engineering agents ai ai-safety ambition architecture claude-code context decomposition engineering engineering-leadership enterprise evaluation executive harness-engineering hitchhikers-guide industry intent jevons-paradox job-market judgment karpathy leadership mcp memory openai orchestration productivity skills specification strategy throughput tools
Ai
Trust, But Verify
AI is confidently wrong some percentage of the time. The skill is not checking every line. It is knowing which lines to check.
Ai
Say What You Mean
Prompting did not die. It fragmented into four different skills. Most of us are still practicing only the first one.
Ai
The New Management
AI agents are fast, moderately reliable, and have no sense of direction. The skill they demand most is not technical. It is managerial.
Ai
The Taste Gap
The most productive users of AI are the ones who are best at rejecting its output.
Ai
Think in Pieces
The skill is not solving the problem. It is slicing it. And it applies to far more than code.
Ai
The Spec Is the Product
The most expensive sentence in 2026 is not 'build this.' It is 'build... something like this, you know what I mean.'
Ai
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the K-Shaped Economy
AI changed what we can build. It also changed what we need to know. Here are the six skills that matter now.