The Relational Reasoning Gap in AI Agents
Agents excel at code and language but fundamentally struggle with relational reasoning—temporal relationships (before/after), spatial relationships (inside/o...
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
Vibe Coding + Engineering Discipline: The AI Collaboration Paradox
The teams shipping fastest with AI agents? They move slowest at the start. Here’s the paradox of disciplined vibe coding—and the five practices that make it ...
When AI Agents Become Your Users: The Tailwind Distribution Paradox
Tailwind’s CSS framework reached 75M downloads/month through AI coding agents. The irony? Those agents don’t visit documentation sites—where Tailwind monetiz...
Leverage Determines Winners: Why AI Will Transform Every Domain
A heartbreaking story from the 1830s shows how leverage determines winners: machines offered 10x-100x leverage over hand-spinners. The same economic pattern ...
From Black Box to Glass Box: Making Agent Decisions Auditable
Your agent just recommended a major architectural change. Can you audit its reasoning? Thinking framework MCP servers transform black box decisions into glas...
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...
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 ...