Thinking about AI infrastructure
Identity, governance, observability, and what it takes to ship autonomous software at scale.
What Breaks When AI Makes a Trillion Decisions
The world makes hundreds of billions of API calls every day. Each call carries a decision. Most of these decisions are hardcoded into configuration files and compiled binaries. But that's starting to change, and the infrastructure isn't ready.
Feb 10, 2026 · 30 min
A Useful Way to Think About Where AI Fits in Software
The speed at which agent-style systems have moved from research to daily use has been remarkable, even as their impact inside real business environments remains uneven. A clearer split begins to appear when you look at where intelligence sits in the architecture.
Jan 27, 2026 · 21 min
The AI Agent Accountability Gap
Why AI backends need tooling we haven't built yet. When a returns agent approved a $12,000 refund it shouldn't have, nothing looked wrong. The logs showed no errors, every validation check passed. The problem was that no one could explain why it made that call.
Jan 9, 2026 · 18 min
The Move from Monolithic AI to Modular Systems
What a documentation chatbot taught us about building AI features that scale. When web applications hit complexity, we extracted microservices. The same evolution is happening with AI.
Dec 11, 2024 · 36 min
IAM for AI Backends
How DIDs and Verifiable Credentials enable trust for AI agents
Dec 5, 2024 · 27 min
The AI Backend
Five years from now, every serious software company will have an AI backend - a reasoning layer that sits alongside their services, making decisions that used to be hardcoded.
Dec 4, 2024 · 15 min