Aaron Brethorst
Personal website for Aaron Brethorst - Seattleite, technology leader, photographer, transit enthusiast, erstwhile non-runner.
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- Posts
- 21 from 12 Aug 2025 to 24 Oct 2026
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- monthly (15 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 12
- We Are All in the C-Suite Now
- The Greenhouse and the Lens: Two Modes of Agentic AI Work
- Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat
- Changing the Economics of Quality with Claude Code-Generated User Stories
- Skills Are the Most Underrated Feature in Agentic AI
- Projects Aren’t Pets; They’re Cattle
- Isometric NYC
- How the Washington State Legislature Works
- Vibe-Coded MDM
- The First Telegraph
- Washington Should Legalize Balcony Solar
- Git Rebase for the Terrified
2025 9
- What Volunteer Open Source Taught Me About Remote Teams
- One weird trick to manage engineering crises; stakeholders love it
- Instantaneous Velocity Is a Trap
- Swift for Android Won't Amount to Anything
- Engineering Managers Should (Sometimes) Write Code
- Claude Code is unreasonably good at building MVPs
- The Data Center Bubble
- A retrospective on iRooster, my first Mac OS X app
- The Coming LOB App Renaissance (And Security Nightmare)