Rob SandhuStaff Mobile Engineer
RS — DOC.03 Writing · 2026 Vancouver, BC · 49.28°N 123.12°W 2 essays

Notes on building software, and on the tools that build it for us.

Essays on AI coding agents, native app architecture, and the unglamorous work that makes a product feel right. Occasional, long-form, opinionated.

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Essays

A robot at a desk turning a chat conversation into a stream of binary that condenses into a glowing processor.
· 6 min read · Essay

AI Compilers: do we still review the code agents write?

If an AI coding agent can generate working software from a plain-English description, do we still need to version-control the code it writes? Seventy years of climbing the abstraction ladder suggests a different name for these tools — and a different quality gate.

  • AI agents
  • Code review
  • Evals
 Stylized 3D illustration of a translucent phone whose native app UI floats off the screen in layered panels.
· 5 min read · Essay

AI is changing the economics of native apps.

Cross-platform frameworks are a cost compromise — and AI just collapsed the cost. If an agent can maintain Swift and Kotlin implementations from one spec, the better promise is: design once, then build the best possible application everywhere.

  • Native apps
  • React Native
  • Electron

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