The Future We Were Supposed to Build
On Patrick Stewart, Jean-Luc Picard, and the future Star Trek taught me to believe in.
Where I think out loud about product, leadership, and AI.
The main thread: Judgment-Driven Development, a framework for software teams building in a world where AI makes execution cheap.
Writing
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The Market Is Starting to Price Judgment
Technical interviews have begun measuring verification instead of output. That is real progress, but it stops one layer short of what matters.
Let Your Agent Talk to My Agent
The future of work, where everyone is productive and nobody knows what's going on.
Never Say Never
Peter Thiel argued computers would complement humans, not replace them. He has since called AI more of a substitute. The chapter's real idea survives the reversal.
The Age of Truly Personal Software
I built a website for a family vacation on a train ride using ChatGPT. It had six users, and that was the point.
We Asked for Metrics. We Got Attribution Theater.
Quantify your impact was good advice for individual contributors. At senior levels, it taught people to fabricate cause and effect.
Applied AI builds
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Job Search Query Builder
Build a precise Google search to find job posts on Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and more, filtered by company, role, and region.
Build Your Personal AI Brain
A step by step guide to building a three-agent personal intelligence system that reads your notes, monitors the web, maintains a private wiki, and delivers daily and weekly briefings to your inbox.
Personal Executive Briefing Agent
A judgment support system that reads your signals every night and tells you what actually matters in the morning.
Questionably Brave
An open-source, AI-powered solo text adventure inspired by D&D 5e. You lead a party of four through a procedurally generated fantasy world, guided by an AI Dungeon Master.
CVMatch
A lightweight CV-to-role matcher that experiments with pragmatic AI + MLOps patterns.
image2sound
Transform any image into a unique audio composition — translating color, contrast, and structure into sound.
About this space
Written by Rami Pinku.
A place to practice clear thinking in public. All views my own.