Agnostic

Most technology writing today is written by people selling something: vendors, consultancies, analysts, or platforms with a position to defend. The voices that matter, the practitioners who actually built the systems and shaped the practices, have largely retreated from public discourse, leaving the field to marketing copy and influencer takes. Agnostic exists to give those practitioners a serious place to write again, free of vendor capture, hype cycles, and the incentive structures that have hollowed out technical commentary.

Long-form articles paired with video conversations between practitioners, on topics that matter to the people actually building software. Early themes include the expertise crisis emerging from AI-assisted development, the collapse of abstraction depth in modern engineering, and the gap between how technology is sold and how it actually performs in production. The roster is intentionally narrow: senior practitioners with decades of hands-on experience, picked for the quality of their thinking rather than their reach.

Pre-launch. The site is built, founding articles are written, and a small group of practitioners (including Nic Chenewith, with conversations underway with Abby Bangser and others) are committed. Launch is on hold while other ventures take priority, but the foundation is in place.

If you're working on adjacent problems and want to compare notes, reach out.