I'm Scott Drake. I write software and teach leadership, but what I really do is study complex things and turn those insights into systems anyone can use. This site is where I share past and current work.
For the last two months I've been studying how the teams who actually do this (Anthropic, OpenAI, and a handful of others) get to 100% AI-written code. Code that ships, written end-to-end by agents. I've also built my first working versions.
The first thing I learned: it's not about a better model...
A custom software project that cost $500,000 two years ago can be done for $100,000 today by a small team using AI.
The bad: Product companies with 100-person teams will likely scale down to 30, unless they have a deep backlog they want to work through.
The good: A whole set of projects that w...
I wrapped up two big initiatives this week—moving a set of services from cloud platforms to Linux VPSs, and finally launching this blog. That freed up some mental space to start experimenting with agentic, command-line coding tools.
I spent time with two of them:
- OpenAI’s Codex
- Anthropic’...
If you're a software engineer starting to build with AI, you've probably sat in meetings where people casually throw around terms like "LangChain," "embeddings," or "hugging face." If you've nodded along while mentally cataloging what to research later, you're not alone.
The AI space has its own...
AI isn’t going to replace software developers, it’s going to make the job fun and feasible again.
Early in my career, I could build useful products and solutions with five technologies. Today it’s 15-20+.
I could become an expert on those core five things. I could feel like a craftsman who m...
