Will Hackett
Australian software engineer in London. Co-founder and CTO of Flowstate, putting human and AI labour on one ledger. I build products, cook, and drink far too much wine. Sometimes I write about AI. Sometimes I ski.
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- 12 seconds to scan 3,000 rows — oops
- Workforce Engineering has always existed. We just never named it.
- What is Workforce Engineering, and how do you achieve flow state? (external post, published on flowstate.inc)
- Boring is better: Pushing 67k telemetry events per second into Postgres
- Amortising a hallucination (external post, published on flowstate.inc)
- AI agents won't kill your system of record. Your rate limits will.
- Digital ID done right: verifiable claims without the surveillance
- Why I moved to Microsoft 365
- Digital sovereignty requires funding, not just adoption
- The best engineering teams can turn on a dime (external post, published on flowstate.inc)
2025
- Agentic coding is changing the engineering workforce—just not how you think (external post, published on flowstate.inc)
- Reclaiming the commons: the case for an accountable internet
- Moore's Law for AI is officially dead (external post, published on flowstate.inc)
- Big teams, small team energy (external post, published on flowstate.inc)
- Search kind of sucks now