notes
Things written
Opinionated notes on agentic development, file-format reverse-engineering, and the boring middle of building real software with AI agents.
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AGPLv3 for our SaaS, against the MIT orthodoxy
Every founder I asked said use MIT. We picked AGPLv3 for our invoicing platform instead. Here is the math the standard advice skips, including the real failure modes of permissive licensing for SaaS.
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When NOT to rewrite a legacy file format
Every quarter, someone emails us mid-rewrite of a binary parser they should never have started. Here is the decision tree we use ourselves before agreeing to take on a format.
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What 'AI-agentic' actually means (and what it doesn't)
The term has been hollowed out by LinkedIn posts. Here is what 'AI-agentic' means when you actually use it to ship software, what it isn't, and why the distinction is load-bearing.