Hey there! I'm Steven Poitras, a technology industry veteran with a track record of joining early-stage companies and helping them scale to massive success.

Before Ema, I spent nearly a decade at Nutanix where I was part of the journey from scrappy startup to $5B+ public company. While there, I created the "Nutanix Bible"—an industry-defining technical resource that became the go-to guide for hyperconverged infrastructure. I then joined DevRev to continue working with visionary founders on next-generation developer and customer relationship tools.

I'm currently at Ema, where I'm focused on building the future of enterprise AI through agentic AI employees.

I write about agentic AI, enterprise transformation, and the patterns I've observed across multiple platform shifts. This site is my space to think out loud about where technology is headed and what it means for how we work.

Thanks for stopping by.

– Steven

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October 20, 2025 About Me: Consulting to Startups personal November 10, 2025 Ema's Founders: Google to Startup ema November 20, 2025 Ema: The Universal AI Employee Platform ema December 1, 2025 Ema Platform: Agentic AI Guide ema December 8, 2025 Why I Joined Ema: Betting on Agentic AI ema December 15, 2025 Agentic AI: Beyond the Chatbot agentic-ai January 5, 2026 The New Hire Who Never Sleeps agentic-ai January 6, 2026 MCP in Practice: From Scripts to Platform mcp January 6, 2026 MCP in Practice: Knowledge-First Builder mcp January 8, 2026 The MCP Mental Model mcp January 11, 2026 MCP: From Hardcoded to Live Data mcp January 11, 2026 Inline LLM Calls: Skip the Redeploy llm January 11, 2026 Rules, Agents, Commands, MCP... WTF? cursor January 13, 2026 Ema Workflows: RAG Flow Control ema January 14, 2026 Ema Workflows: State Persistence ema January 15, 2026 Rules on Rules on Rules cursor January 16, 2026 Ema: Picking the Right Tool ema January 17, 2026 Goals Matter More Than Code llm January 18, 2026 Embeddings: How Vectors Get Meaning embeddings January 19, 2026 MCP Tools People Actually Use mcp January 20, 2026 Beyond Rules: Commands, Agents, and Skills cursor January 21, 2026 Intent: From Keywords to LLMs search January 22, 2026 The Multi-Agent Illusion cursor January 22, 2026 .ctx: Memory for Amnesiac Agents cursor January 22, 2026 Designing Agent Personas That Actually Work cursor January 23, 2026 Search is Dead. Long Live Action. search January 23, 2026 Anatomy of a Persona Lens cursor January 24, 2026 Designing with the Persona Lens Model cursor January 24, 2026 Smart Routing: Right Agent, Right Job cursor January 25, 2026 Compiler to LLM Workflows llm January 26, 2026 Commands That Know When to Merge cursor January 27, 2026 Building This Blog's Search search January 27, 2026 The Three-Tier Context System cursor January 27, 2026 How Cursor Finds Skills cursor January 27, 2026 Rules vs Skills in AI Dev cursor January 27, 2026 Audit Your AI Config cursor January 27, 2026 The alwaysApply Tax cursor January 28, 2026 Testing AI Artifacts: A Validation Framework cursor January 29, 2026 Compiler vs LLM: A Deep Dive llm January 29, 2026 Subagents: Fresh Eyes on Demand cursor January 30, 2026 AI That Teaches Itself cursor January 31, 2026 Search: From 30ms to 3 Seconds search February 1, 2026 Ema Workflows: Entity Extraction ema February 2, 2026 Your Rules Are Fighting Each Other cursor February 3, 2026 Ema Workflows: Routing and Branching ema February 4, 2026 Rules That Know Your Stack cursor February 5, 2026 Ema Workflows: Search Debugging ema February 7, 2026 Ema Workflows: Debugging Common Problems ema February 23, 2026 Interfaces Are Changing fundamentals February 23, 2026 The AI Dev Toolkit in 2026 cursor February 27, 2026 MCP: The Semantic Data Layer ai-development March 3, 2026 Headless AI: Every App Is a Head ai-development March 6, 2026 Negotiated Integrations ai-development March 10, 2026 Democratizing AI Builders ai-development March 13, 2026 The Interface Forecast fundamentals February 23, 2026 What is Agentic Thinking? fundamentals