Michael Bernstein — VP of AI Engineering at Markup AI. Writing about AI, engineering leadership, and distributed systems.https://bernste.in/https://bernste.in/writings/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-external-feedback-loops/https://bernste.in/writings/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-external-feedback-loops/If the agent can't be forced to confront ground truth, you didn't build a software factory - you built a demo generator.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bernste.in/writings/writing-in-2026/https://bernste.in/writings/writing-in-2026/Why I'm starting to publicly write in 2026.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bernste.in/writings/everyones-a-thought-leader-almost-no-one-is-thinking/https://bernste.in/writings/everyones-a-thought-leader-almost-no-one-is-thinking/Thought leadership got cheap. Thinking didn't.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT