The Shifts I'm Seeing in 2026
Developers are leaving the IDE. Designers are writing Claude Code skills. Product managers are shipping PRs instead of Jira tickets. I watched all three happen in the past month.
36 products. 19 years.
Still shipping.
From code to leadership to AI.
The view from the trenches.
now documenting what I've learned
I build digital products, grow engineering teams, and write about what actually works. 50+ tech talks. 27 teams trained. 300+ people coached. No theory. Just lessons from 19 years of doing the real thing.
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