Adventures is where the work takes form.
These stories come from a lifetime of making systems. Some are tales of hard-won production deployments. Others are snapshots of transformation.
Selected Field Notes:
For the last two years, I’ve been focusing on AI-Native in business, and on some weapon systems abroad. Judging by posters from the 50s, we all have self-driving cars already. All the tellers are robots, and AI caters to our every need.
These notes are about the gap between that poster and engineering.
2025/08/07: The AI Success Story Nobody’s Talking About: How "Boring" Architecture Beats Hype — 'AI don’t need any clouds.'
2025/07/21: AI Integration Architecture for Enterprise — this is not how we saw the future in 2023. But here it is, in its full glory.
2023/07/05: The AI Evolution Playbook: Why 80% Will Fail — the four phases of AI-native evolution — validated by life itself.
2023/07/04: American AI Integration Trap — the impediment is known — our vendors will surely beat it!
These are the short stories behind the current CTO avalanche. Maybe it’s for the best.