# essays

longer thoughts, first posted on x and linkedin. mirrored on [mauricekleine.com/essays](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays) so they have a home.

- [ride the floor up](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays/ride-the-floor-up.md) (2026-09-13) - ai raises the floor of what technology does for us. how to keep raising your own ceiling while it does
- [the journey no longer matters](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays/the-journey-no-longer-matters.md) (2026-09-09) - fifteen years of loving the craft of building software. what happens when the craft stops being the point
- [my agents merged 468 prs in 23 days. i didn't read a single one of them.](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays/my-agents-merged-468-prs.md) (2026-08-25) - how hyperspeed runs my coding agents overnight, and why planning and validation are the job now
- [dude, where is the roi?](https://www.mauricekleine.com/essays/dude-where-is-the-roi.md) (2026-03-11) - you followed every step of the ai hype cycle. so where is the return? on tinkering versus shipping