Essays
Start with the overview: Agentic AI for Construction
Agentic AI & Construction PM
Why project management software is being replaced by AI you hire, not install.
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The next project manager isn't software you use. It's software you hire. — Apr 2026
Agentic AI is the biggest shift in software since the cloud. Construction is where it plays out first — and it's why I'm building Alfred.
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Agentic AI Is Eating Construction Project Management Software — Apr 2026
Harvey ate legal research. Claude Code ate junior developers. Construction is next.
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I have 27 subs building a 500MW AI data center. None of them know what the other 26 are doing — Mar 2026
27 subcontractors, 27 independent schedules, zero cross-reference — and the most expensive problem on a hyperscale build is invisible.
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Construction management software is dead — Jan 2026
Primavera and Procore were built to track what happened. AI infrastructure needs a system that predicts what's coming.
Data Center & Modern Construction
How AI compute is rewriting the physics, schedules, and tooling of how we build.
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The purchase order is a lie — Jan 2026
Microsoft reserved transformer capacity in 2023. You sent a PO in 2025. You're not competing — you're waiting.
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The Gantt chart is dead — Jan 2026
The Gantt chart has been the standard since 1910. AI infrastructure just broke the assumptions underneath it.
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The 18-month data center build is dead — Jan 2026
Microsoft is building data centers in 12 months instead of 18. Here's the speed-of-light formula.
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Build-to-spec data centers are dead — Dec 2025
The spec never stays finished. Microsoft's 'cell' model shows how to build for a chip that doesn't exist yet.
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The 19-inch rack is dead — Dec 2025
AI compute just killed the 100-year-old metal box every data center was built around.