Co-founder & CPO, SpecStory · before that CPO at Pluralsight; GitHub, Dropbox, Google
Co-founder & CPO, SpecStory · before that CPO at Pluralsight; GitHub, Dropbox, Google
Intent is the new source code.
I help teams build useful software by steering agents and proving the result. I call this agentic engineering. It's the focus of SpecStory, my teaching, writing and advising. I co-organize D.C. AI Tinkerers, come to an event.
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New live course
Hardcore Agentic Engineeringfor builders who ship.
Stop trusting the green checkmark. Driving agents is the engineering skill with the highest ceiling right now, and the unit of review is a goal, not a diff. I teach it the way we practice it at SpecStory: you build a real agentic harness, run it on your own repo, and walk out proving your agent's work before you push.
Bring a repo you care about. Everything else is provided.
- Three weeks
- from a first agent loop to a verified, deterministic gate.
- Your repo
- brief the goal, steer the run, verify the result, every week.
- Live in Stoa
- the build room we made at SpecStory. Not Zoom.
- Demo Day
- you ship, and you prove it before you push.
Writing
All writing →
25 Patterns in Agentic EngineeringSpecStory Press · 2026A field guide to building software by steering agents.
AI Essentials for Tech Executives ↗O'Reilly · with Hamel HusainA practical guide to unlocking the competitive potential of AI.Read it free at ai-execs.com ↗
Goal EngineeringMay 2026 · How I brief coding agents with paired goal and rider documents.How I built a product video with AIJul 2025
Beyond Code-CentricJun 2025
Weekly essays at Meditations on Tech ↗.
Products, OSS & AI Video
unmint
Beautiful Mintlify-style docs, minus the price tag. An open source alternative.
deadreckon
Run your coding agent unattended, and trust the result. A supervision harness with a watchdog gate the agent can't fool.
findunmet
Type a topic, get a cited report on real market pain across Reddit, X, YouTube, and the open web.
AI Video
Explores my side obsession: AI filmmaking, text-to-video generation, and the strange new frontier where words become worlds.
Subscribe on YouTubeAlso: OBBBA Reader, Hear the Headlines, and Gregslist.ai.
Speaking
Fortune's Path
Jun 2026 · Cut twice, measure once: why it's better to be fast than perfect.
Vanishing Gradients
Mar 2025 · Building the future: how AI is transforming who can create software.
Get to know me
Advisory
A paid working session on your actual decision: positioning, product strategy, build versus buy, how your team ships with AI.
Book an advisory callEmail me to clarify anything first.
SpecStory
You don't write prompts. You author intent. SpecStory saves, searches, and shares your AI sessions.
Visit specstory.com ↗Writing
Books, essays, and field notes: 25 Patterns in Agentic Engineering, Goal Engineering, and weekly Meditations on Tech.
Browse the writing