Keynes predicted 15-hour weeks by 2030. Gates says 2-day weeks within a decade. Meanwhile, Germany, Argentina, and Silicon Valley are legislating or normalizing 12-hour days. The paradox has a name, and it’s 161 years old.
Everyone says AI makes developers faster. My experience is the opposite: I arrive exhausted not because I wrote more code, but because I evaluated more decisions. The effort didn’t shrink. It transformed.
Three fractures in how we learn, hire, and distribute capability.
Three layers of knowledge integration between Obsidian and Claude Code: from write-only vault to a feedback loop that promotes patterns into skills.
Structured requirements, deviation rules, and the art of selective theft: five concepts borrowed from GSD, twenty rejected.
From token optimization to an orchestrated development workflow with Claude Code: teaching an AI your patterns is only part of the problem.
A personal project that started as “can I automate an RSS digest?” and became a full-stack monitoring platform with narrative memory, semantic search, and AI-generated editorial commentary.
From the SPACE Era to the AI & DevEx Revolution: a necessary update.
Another chapter in our automation journey at Wishew, where we bridge the gap between project management and development workflows, and discover what happens when your AI pair programmer actually knows your patterns.
The best way to work with AI isn’t to ask it to write code: it’s to teach it your patterns first.