Brian Porter · CTO

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Technologist, entrepreneur, visionary, developer.

A technical journal on engineering leadership, machine intelligence, and architectures built to last — field notes from four decades of building systems.

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📌 Pinned DEC 30 · 2025

A CTO's Perspective on AI in 2026

Every year brings a new wave of AI predictions. Most are hype. Here's what I actually think will matter in 2026.

#ai #agents #cto
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AUG 06 · 2026

TIME Built an AI-Only Website. My Blog Already Had One — Minus the Ads

TIME.com serves AI crawlers a stripped markdown version of every article, with ads no human ever sees. This blog has served mac...

JUL 15 · 2026

5 Reasons Your Next Deploy Should Be 145 KB of Wasm, Not Docker

I replaced this blog's web server with a single 145 KB WebAssembly binary on Cloudflare Workers — smaller than most images on t...

claude-code JUL 14 · 2026

Can a Claude Skill Out-Design You? I Handed It My Blog to Find Out

I installed the Hallmark design skill in Claude Code and told it to redesign my blog. Forty minutes later it had beaten a design I'd swea...

ai JUL 12 · 2026

How I Made a Minimalist Agent Harness Code Like a Senior Engineer

I pointed a bare-bones agent harness at a coding model, bolted on a pack of best-practice engineering skills, and had it spec, build, and...

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