About

Software developer based in Ottawa, Canada. After a period away from full-time development — spent on teaching, research, and prose writing — I returned to the work and have been thinking carefully about how the practice has changed under the influence of agentic AI tools.

This site is the home for that thinking. Long-form essays land here first; daily reading notes and shorter syntheses join them as the practice settles in. The aim across all of it is the same: to take seriously the asymmetries between what humans bring to work and what the tools they build can supply.

You can reach me at adam@adamdaw.com.