Engineering systems for companies with too much software

The operating notebook for AI-native engineering leaders.

A darker, premium direction for essays on internal platforms, software agents, migrations, and the machinery behind fast engineering organizations.

$ open latest-field-note --topic developer-portals
→ Map ownership, standards, migration status, and golden paths in one place.
→ Optimize for enterprise leverage, not small-team vibes.
01

Developer portals

Not a catalog. A control plane for ownership, health, maturity, and migration readiness.

02

Automatic migrations

Fleet-wide codemods, PRs, compatibility windows, and platform-led adoption.

03

Agentic DevEx

What changes when agents can write code but still need architecture, constraints, and review systems.