When Everyone Can Build, What Matters?
When AI can code better than humans, what is left? The ability to know what is worth building. Everyone has taste. The work is knowing yours
Read moreAbout - Hey, I'm Wayne.
I am Adaptivus and Adaptivus is me. I build things. I write about what I learn. I bridge the gap between what technology can do and what people actually need.
Over the past decade, I've navigated some of the most challenging technology environments, from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to the United Nations Foundation, Fortune 500 companies like Deloitte and Gallup and all of the gigs in between. I've built analytics teams from scratch, modernized enterprise systems, and transformed outdated processes into modern automated systems. Throughout all of it, I've watched brilliant people spend half their day fighting tools instead of doing the work that matters.
That's what I fix now.
- Years of experience
- 15+
- Different enterprises
- 10+
- Amazing kids
- 2
How I work - Most People Skip the Hard Questions
What actually needs to be built? Who will maintain it when I'm gone? What happens when your org changes direction in six months?
I've seen too many projects fail because someone built what was asked for instead of what was needed. The hard part isn't writing code. It's figuring out what problem you're really trying to solve.
- Ask Before Building. I start by questioning everything. Not to be difficult, but because the right question at the beginning saves months of work later. Most technical debt comes from solving the wrong problem really well.
- Build for Humans. Your users aren't your engineering team. They're people with different priorities, varying technical comfort, and limited patience. I build systems that work for them, not systems that impress other developers.
- Plan for Reality. Requirements will change. Budgets will shift. Team members will leave. I design systems that survive contact with reality. Simple, documented, maintainable. Boring is beautiful.
That's me
Wayne Grigsby
Builder, Writer, Dad
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I write about what I'm learning, building, and thinking about.
The Illusion of Control
A personal journey through AI-assisted development, from IDE integrations to terminal-based agents, and the paradox of feeling less in control while delivering better work.
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