Leadership on Lami Adabonyan — Engineering & Product Leader

AI Did Not Expand Your Attention

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Something changed last December, I went from constantly correcting and steering coding agents to looking at what Opus produced and thinking, damn, I would have needed three passes over a week to get there.

When I write code, I usually arrive at the final version through iteration. I try an approach, find the awkward edges, restructure it, run the tests, and look at it again. Eventually, I mold it into something that feels elegant. Opus jumped straight to elegance within five minutes (yeah, yeah, yeah, I had good instructions in Markdown files, but still).

Your GenAI Strategy is Theater

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Your board wants to know what you’re doing about AI. Your CEO forwarded another breathless LinkedIn post about autonomous agents. A VP just IMed you asking if we should be “building with Claude” or “going all-in on GPT-5.”

Here’s what you should tell them: We don’t have a GenAI strategy, and that’s intentional.

Not because AI doesn’t matter. It does. But because the question itself reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of where we are in this cycle, what these tools actually do, and how technology adoption works in organizations that ship real products to real customers.

Is Gen AI Approaching Bubble Territory?

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Gen AI looks like a bubble, but people are still using it to get real work done.

It’s the internet, cloud, and crypto rolled into one. Everyone’s betting big. But when you peel back the hype, a harder question emerges: is this transformation, or just the most expensive game of follow-the-leader in tech history?

The Emperor’s New Algorithm

We’re living through the most overhyped, under-delivered technology moment since the dotcom boom. But here’s the kicker: unlike 1999, this bubble might actually have substance underneath all the noise.

Diseconomies of Scale: Why Software Slows Down as Companies Grow

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Software is eating the world, and large corporations are choking on it.

Every Fortune 50 company knows the pattern: the bigger they get, the slower they ship. A ten-person startup can push to production five times a day. An enterprise can turn the same kind of change into a quarterly release.

This isn’t incompetence. It’s economics.

The Myth of Software Scale

Factories scale linearly. Software scales exponentially in complexity.

The common model for software development is simple: hire more engineers, build more features, capture more market share.

What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Junior Devs

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AI won’t close the door on junior developers, it’s widening the hallway for all of us. Beginners will onboard faster. Seniors will mentor with sharper tools. Managers will scale teams with less friction. Executives will rethink how value gets created. Far from ending careers, AI is redrawing the developer journey into something bigger, faster, and more connected. From first jobs to executive seats, AI is shifting the developer journey, not ending it.