Thoughts on
building Axon

The story behind Axon — why we started it, what we got wrong early on, and what we're building toward.

A technical deep-dive into how Axon indexes your codebase, why it's fast, and what it means for suggestion quality.

The design decisions behind Axon's editor UI — why we chose inline over popups, how we think about color, and what we're still figuring out.

An honest look at what's actually improved in AI coding tools over the past two years, what's still broken, and where things are heading.

What it actually took to ship Axon agents — the technical challenges, what we got wrong, and what we learned about human-AI collaboration.

Why most developer tool onboarding fails, what we tried at Axon, and what we learned about teaching through doing.