https://magicpowered.io/blog.html Field notes and essays on shipping production AI in regulated, high-stakes domains. en-us Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:03:39 GMT https://magicpowered.io/blog/talent-famine.html https://magicpowered.io/blog/talent-famine.html Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Tech is cutting juniors at the fastest rate in history while spending $700B on AI. The senior engineers companies still depend on take 7–10 years to grow. The pipeline is being unbuilt — and the price shock is mathematically inevitable. https://magicpowered.io/blog/metu-human-context-limit.html https://magicpowered.io/blog/metu-human-context-limit.html Thu, 14 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT By early 2026, 85% of developers use AI daily and individual output is up 25–55%. Team productivity hasn't budged past 10%. The bottleneck isn't the generator — it's the human context window. Introducing METU. https://magicpowered.io/blog/ai-in-dev-loop.html https://magicpowered.io/blog/ai-in-dev-loop.html Wed, 13 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT A B2B platform that doubled its member base from ~1,300 to ~3,200 companies in a year with a six-person team and weekly releases. The lever was AI in the development workflow — not in the product. https://magicpowered.io/blog/crypto-ai-agent-cross-chain.html https://magicpowered.io/blog/crypto-ai-agent-cross-chain.html Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Building an AI agent that touches real money, on real chains, with weekly releases and a mid-flight chain migration. What it took, from an engineering leadership angle. https://magicpowered.io/blog/adtech-accountability-layer.html https://magicpowered.io/blog/adtech-accountability-layer.html Mon, 11 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Inside the Media Economics Platform we built from zero for a leading AdTech group — supply-chain attribution, policy engine, trace receipts, and a 21% CPA reduction in production.