When AI Kills the Execution Moat: What Business Models Survive?
The traditional entrepreneurial advice to ‘find a painful problem and solve it’ assumes execution is hard. As AI makes execution cheap and accessible, this a...
I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, working as an architect on the Windows Developer Platform team responsible for the Windows agentic platform.
Thoughts on AI, MCP, and building platform infrastructure that enables agentic workflows at enterprise scale.
Recent Posts
From Campfires to Solo Tents: AI Agents and the Erosion of Social Cohesion
We’re going from campfires to solo tents—and calling it progress. How AI agents are changing the fundamental patterns of human collaboration that made us suc...
MCP Turns One: Why Governance Mattered More Than Features
MCP’s first year taught me that protocol success depends less on technical brilliance and more on governance decisions. Here’s what the core maintainers got ...
GitHub Copilot Skills: Teaching AI Your Team’s Playbook
GitHub Copilot now supports Agent Skills—structured, reusable instructions that teach AI how to perform tasks consistently. Here’s how they fit into the emer...
Choosing the Right Context Architecture for Agent Systems
When building agent systems, it’s tempting to adopt every promising pattern. Here’s how GitHub’s built-in primitives—Issues, PRs, and instruction files—made ...
Scaling Agent Instructions: What Changes at 10+ Agents
Once you’ve learned the basics of agent instruction hygiene, what changes when you’re running 10, 20, or 100 agents? Here’s what the research says about mult...
From Agent Workflows to Generative Experiences
Someone asked: ‘If agents are just markdown files, how do you build a mobile card game?’ The answer is ‘you don’t’—but that’s changing faster than most peopl...
Agent Instruction Design: Writing Maintainable Markdown Agents
Most developers write agent instructions like code comments—scattered and inconsistent. Here’s the research-backed pattern that works for maintainable, effec...
GitHub as My Agentic Work Hub: Beyond Git to Full Workflow Orchestration
Git is great for memory, but GitHub adds the primitives that make agentic workflows actually work: Issues for tracking, PRs for review, Actions for automatio...
MCP Joins the Linux Foundation: A Milestone for Open Agent Infrastructure
Today’s announcement of MCP joining the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation marks a pivotal moment for open protocol governance. Here’s why this matters...