Scott Falconer · Essays & field notes
AI stopped being a novelty.
Now it has to work.
Essays and field notes on moving AI from demos into real teams, products, workflows, and decisions. Practical, opinionated, and grounded in the part everyone eventually hits: making the thing useful.
Mostly read by people trying to make this stuff work on Monday.
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- 01AI Experiments · May 20267 min
AI Finally Gave Me a Path. Now I Have More Work to Do.
I was standing in the dirt staring at a blue line on my phone, trying to figure out how I had just ruined math.
- 02Software Teams · May 20262 min
What I look for in junior engineers now
In my “ the kids are alright ” post, I argued that junior engineers won’t learn the same way we did.
- 03Software Teams · Apr 20262 min
The kids are alright
I’m not that worried that junior programmers won’t learn the same way we did.
- 04Drupal · Apr 20269 min
From Lovable to Drupal: how we made the DriesNote demo real
After the DriesNote, one of the most common questions we got was some version of this: " how did you actually do the Lovable-to-Drupal migration, and how could we do it ourselves ?"
- 05Software Teams · Mar 20266 min
Let’s Go Chasing Waterfalls
TL;DR: AI flips the economics of software delivery. Code is getting cheap. Ambiguity is still expensive.
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Threads I keep pulling.
Most ideas are bigger than one essay. These are the running investigations.
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Field notes on the people quietly rebuilding their jobs around AI.
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Oversight that ships — playbooks, policies, and patterns.
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What changes for engineering when assistants become collaborators.
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About the writer
I'm Scott. I write about AI, and I've been doing the work.
Senior Product Director for Drupal, Applied AI, and Agent Success at Acquia, and author of Managing AI. I work where AI products meet real teams: workflows, content systems, agent behavior, and the unglamorous parts of making useful software.
Managing AI
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