AI-Powered Development

Software Engineering Leadership & AI-Augmented Development

SVP Software Engineering at WellSky, leading nearly 400 engineers. I write about AI-augmented development, software leadership, and building things that matter, backed by 35 years of experience.

AI-Powered Software Development
Since 1999
Healthcare • Logistics • Nonprofits • Enterprise
The AI Advantage

Claude Code: My Secret Weapon

I build complete applications using Claude Code, Anthropic's AI-powered development environment. This isn't just autocomplete. It's an AI partner that understands architecture, writes tests, and delivers production-ready code.

Combined with GitHub Copilot and 35 years of hands-on experience, I deliver solutions in days that used to take weeks. Every AI-generated line is reviewed, tested, and validated by human expertise.

3x Faster

AI-augmented development dramatically accelerates delivery

Claude Code

Anthropic's AI builds entire features with context awareness

Human Verified

35 years of experience validates every solution

Test-Driven

AI writes comprehensive tests for reliable code

Featured Projects

Real solutions that delivered real results for clients across diverse industries.

Enterprise

eRateIQ

The intelligence layer for E-Rate sales. eRateIQ scores every Form 470 the moment it is filed, surfaces the renewals competitors miss, and tracks the USAC changes that open the next deal. Smarter leads, faster wins.

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Healthcare

Anchor Personal Health Platform

A private, local-first health platform for navigating a serious diagnosis. Anchor pulls records, labs, medications, and treatment research into one place and separates signal from noise.

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Personal

FamilyApp

A passwordless web app that keeps an extended family connected: a shared directory of birthdays and addresses, an auto-built family tree, and daily reminders so nobody misses a milestone.

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Latest from the Blog

Insights on AI, software development, and technology strategy.

AI Development

My Own Site Blocked My Own Agent

For eleven days my dashboard reported a broken sitemap on a site whose sitemap was perfectly fine. Cloudflare was challenging my build agent while waving Googlebot straight through. The web is growing a guest list, the free-tier defaults change on September 15, and most internal tooling is on the wrong side of the line.

August 2, 2026 Read More
AI Development

Last Week I Said Route. Opus 5 Put the Dial Inside the Model.

Eight days after I argued that picking a single best model is the wrong game, Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5: near-Fable-5 intelligence at half the price, at the same cost as the model it replaces, with a dial that trades effort for money. It did not retire routing. It moved the router inside the model.

July 25, 2026 Read More
AI Development

The Flagship Is Dead. Start Routing.

A dozen models dropped in about two weeks: Sonnet 5, the GPT-5.6 family, Grok 4.5, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2. If you are still trying to pick the single best one, you are playing the wrong game. The wave did not crown a winner. It retired the question, and made routing the skill that matters.

July 17, 2026 Read More
Joe Baker

The Person Behind the Code

I'm Joe Baker, SVP of Software Engineering at WellSky, where I lead nearly 400 engineers across the post-acute healthcare spectrum. I founded Revelations Technology in 1999, and I've been building software that solves real problems ever since.

This site is where I share what I'm learning about AI-augmented development, software leadership, and the intersection of the two. With experience spanning healthcare, logistics, nonprofits, and enterprise systems, I write from the perspective of someone who's still hands-on with code every day.

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