Archive · Five pillars

Considered writing.

Long-form essays, published when ready. Five pillars chosen for coherence with twenty years of work across tech management, software architecture, cloud, and AI. Not courses, not motivation, not anything you can find in feeds.

A

Tech management

Leadership inside Italian companies

In preparation

No essays published in this pillar yet.

B

Software architecture

Web, systems, and design (see Two Webs)

2 essays

  1. The shadow trader

    A backtest said my arbitrage strategy was profitable. A shadow trader running inside the production process, against the same order book, said it was off by 65 basis points. The architectural difference between the two was the part the backtest ignored. That part decided the outcome.

    ·12 min read

  2. The Two Webs

    Documents and applications need different runtimes. Quietly, that separation is already happening — and the architects of the modern web are starting to admit it.

    ·18 min read
C

Cloud

Platforms · infrastructure · scale

In preparation

No essays published in this pillar yet.

D

AI

Models, tooling, and the working day

2 essays

  1. Auditing my own AI workflow

    I had a seventeen-turn conversation with another instance of Claude about how I use Claude Code. The valuation it gave me was wrong in both directions — inflated where it guessed, deflated where I had quietly underdescribed what I had built. The interesting result was not the score. It was the bias on both sides.

    ·17 min read

  2. The most useful bug I shipped

    I ported my Python crypto bot to Rust in roughly ten hours with AI peer review on every fix. I got a 138× speedup. The speedup was generating 244 arbitrage opportunities that did not exist. The fix taught me more about AI-assisted development than the port itself.

    ·13 min read
E

Career

Tech in Italy · sponsorship · pivot

1 essay

  1. Three bugs before the market

    I built a triangular arbitrage bot, ran it in Tokyo with 21ms latency, and got zero opportunities. I almost concluded the market was efficient. Then I asked the question I should have asked first — and found three bugs in my own code.

    ·11 min read