Chad Metcalf
Writing about software, AI, open source, and the work of building things that last.
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Red Ocean
AI is driving the cost of software to zero. Commodity apps drown in the red ocean. The engineers we spent fifteen years taking for granted are about to inherit the earth.
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Space Cowboys
We eliminated infra specialists and regretted it. Now AI is setting up the same mistake with software engineering itself.
Vibe Building
What vibe coding and construction have in common, and why the tool only works if you do.
Moving the Dead Tree
On finding things by showing up, and why I'm writing here.
