Pipe and Verse, What?

I named this site for the thing that's become impossible to ignore: building products in the age of AI requires being fluent in two languages most people think are opposites.

Pipe is the craft. The system design. The model selection. The prompt/context engineering. The careful consideration of edge cases when you're testing an agent that needs to handle real customer. The discipline of making things that actually function when someone's livelihood depends on them working.

Verse is the human element. The empathy to understand why someone who's done client outreach for fifteen years feels existential dread when you automate it. The wisdom to know that "more efficient" isn't always better if it severs the connection that made the work meaningful. The courage to ask whether we should build something just because we can.

Great products aren't pipe or verse. They're the refusal to choose. And I'm still figuring out how. These are field notes from the attempt.

Welcome to Pipe and Verse.