Stream
No polish. No editorial calendar. Just what's on my mind.
The Site Problem
You are looking at the current version of the problem. How do you make a site feel professional without sanding all the personality off it? That is the part I care about.
The brief was detailed. The voice direction was specific. The design references were intentional. This isn't "AI wrote my website." This is "I directed an AI to build what I envisioned." There's a difference.
Webex Calling Migration: Week 3
Migrating 400+ users off legacy telephony while keeping the lights on is the IT equivalent of changing a tire at 60mph. We're at 72% and only two "but my fax machine" tickets this week.
The secret nobody talks about in government IT: the technology is the easy part. The change management is where you earn your paycheck.
Why Government IT Doesn't Have to Suck
Hot take that shouldn't be hot: government employees deserve the same quality tech experience as private sector workers. ServiceNow intake optimization isn't sexy. But 1,000 county employees not wanting to throw their laptops out the window? That's the dream.
Traeger + Sous Vide = Cheat Codes
Started the brisket at 5am. Sous vide got it to 165°, then the Traeger finishes the bark. It's not traditional. Purists will hate it. But it's perfect every single time, and I'm done apologizing for consistency.
There's a metaphor in here about technology and tradition that I'm choosing not to make. Sometimes a brisket is just a brisket.
The Agent System is Working. Kind Of.
My multi-agent system just successfully managed a task pipeline without me babysitting it. For about 11 minutes. Then it decided to reorganize my notes into a taxonomy that made sense to no one, including the AI.
But those 11 minutes? Genuinely impressive. The gap between "sometimes works beautifully" and "production ready" is where all the interesting engineering lives.