Product engineer and technical advisor based in Poland. I dissolve the boundary between business outcomes and technical reality—specializing in AI-native systems and the organizational design required to run them.

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01 · FIELD REPORT

The Finishing Tax

Agents gave you the ability to start more projects. They didn't give you more mental RAM to hold them. The real cost isn't tokens or lines of code. It's the cognitive friction you pay every time you re-enter a session you didn't properly close.

02 · FIELD REPORT

How to Interview an Agentic Engineer

The interview formats we inherited from 2019 cannot tell the difference between someone who experimented with AI for a weekend and someone who has lived inside an agentic workflow for six months. Here are the five instincts I test for, and the four tactics I use to surface them.

03 · DECONSTRUCTION

A Tool That Works Isn't the Same as a Tool That Fits

OpenClaw's browser tools have functional ergonomics — they work. But cognitive ergonomics? That's the gap. The interface between stateless tool and memory context is where the fit matters.

04 · SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

The $500k Admin Panel is Dead. Long Live the Stochastic Compiler.

What took 18 months and a $500k GUI in 2014 now takes a focused weekend and a system prompt. Here's how to ship a domain-specific language that non-engineers can use—without building an admin panel.

Focus Areas

  • AI Integration Strategy
  • Engineering Culture Design
  • Technical Leadership Support
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