SkDD: Skills-Driven Development
5 min read
I accidentally named it SDD in October. Spec-Driven Development claimed that acronym. So: SkDD — the methodology I have been running in production since a git init at 1:54 AM.
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works for a bunch of ai agents
4 min readThere are only two positions in the 2026 labor market: principal of your own agents, or labor for someone else's. Jack Dorsey just ran the proof.
The Burnout Cascade
5 min readAI labs burn out their employees with civilization-scale competitive pressure. That burnout radiates outward — to developers, then educators, then anyone whose tools keep shifting every 90 days. The release cadence is the stress wave. Everyone downstream absorbs it.
Managing Agents Is Managing People — Without the Feelings
5 min readEverything we know about management theory exists because humans are emotionally expensive to coordinate. Strip that layer out and what remains is a clean systems problem. Running seven AI agents taught me why management practices exist — not just that they do.
Failure is the Universe’s Throttle
3 min readWe tried to add video to a brand-new voice-note podcast. The laptop overheated, OBS hung, life intervened — and the failure mode was the lesson. Reality doesn’t say ‘no’. It rate-limits you until your pipeline matches your ambition.