Long-form posts on AI-augmented engineering, the operator's view, and the founder/CTO arc. By Adam Lazarus.https://alzr.us/en-ushttps://alzr.us/writing/founder-to-operator/https://alzr.us/writing/founder-to-operator/The muscle that ships a company from zero is not the muscle that keeps a company aimed. I have shifted between modes more than once. Each time, the habits that worked before were the habits I had to break first.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alzr.us/writing/writing-voice-guide-for-ai-assistants/https://alzr.us/writing/writing-voice-guide-for-ai-assistants/I stopped giving my AI assistants rules and started giving them reading material. The shift is from instruction to artifact. The em-dash regex is the catchy part. Loading files as books-the-system-reads is the durable one.Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alzr.us/writing/parallel-agents-for-hiring-research/https://alzr.us/writing/parallel-agents-for-hiring-research/I built a parallel-agent workflow to make candidate background research faster. It made the research deeper instead -- because running ten investigations at once turns a noisy classifier into a confident one. The speedup was the bonus.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT