Writing
Essays on AI, APIs, data, strategy, and startups.
AI and agents
- Agent-ready financial data: an architectural view
An architectural view of how a financial data provider can make its data ready for autonomous and semi-autonomous agents. Workflow archetypes, the three human-in-the-loop bands, the surfaces (REST, SDK, MCP, agents.md, skills, code-as-action), and why the semantic layer is the product.
- The LLM as an API Designer and Critic
When AI builds the API, then evaluates its own work, a dialogue exploring how LLMs design, critique, and consume geospatial APIs.
- Ironies of AI Automation
A practitioner's guide to Bainbridge's framework, understanding why more AI automation often means we need more human expertise, not less.
- When the customer is an LLM
An essay from 2023 arguing that LLMs would become primary consumers of APIs, that API documentation would become in-demand training data, and that API product managers would soon be designing for a non-human customer. Republished with a 2026 note.
Product design
- How to protect elderly people from financial scams without taking away their independence
A product design approach to helping banks protect elderly customers from scams while preserving dignity and autonomy through multi-party authentication and trust networks.
API design
- Taste in API design: Why developer experience demands aesthetic judgment
APIs aren't just functional contracts, they're user interfaces for developers. Great API design requires the same aesthetic judgment and taste that defines excellent product design.
Data platforms
- The catalog becomes the query interface
An essay from 2023 arguing that natural-language queries would replace SQL as the primary interface to enterprise data, with the data catalog as the substrate that makes those queries trustworthy. Republished with a 2026 note.