Timothy Wong writes about building AI products and AI-native companies: company-wide AI adoption, AI-native GTM, and forward deployed engineering. Global VP of Data & AI at Airwallex.https://timothywong.co/enhttps://timothywong.co/writing/evolution-of-engineering-interviews/https://timothywong.co/writing/evolution-of-engineering-interviews/AI should be part of engineering interviews, alongside fundamentals, system design, evaluation, debugging, and production ownership.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/the-ai-native-data-warehouse/https://timothywong.co/writing/the-ai-native-data-warehouse/AI-native analytics needs atomic facts as the source of truth, governed semantic context, and pre-aggregated models as optional accelerators.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/why-evals-matter-in-ai-analytics/https://timothywong.co/writing/why-evals-matter-in-ai-analytics/A video walkthrough of evaluation in AI analytics, from checking a churn metric to explaining its causes and deciding what to do.Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/semantic-layer-data-modeling-dilemma/https://timothywong.co/writing/semantic-layer-data-modeling-dilemma/AI is driving self-serve data adoption, but accuracy depends on balancing core data modeling, curated context, and continuous evaluation.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/ai-does-the-work-people-decide-what-matters/https://timothywong.co/writing/ai-does-the-work-people-decide-what-matters/AI is removing traditional junior work while allowing junior people to contribute earlier. The real challenge is rebuilding judgment, apprenticeship, and accountability around that shift.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/building-an-ai-native-organization/https://timothywong.co/writing/building-an-ai-native-organization/Adoption is easy to count. Compounding is what matters. My three-pillar framework for AI transformation explains why investing in just one pillar produces a pilot that plateaus.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/how-the-knicks-won-the-2026-nba-title-despite-the-analytics/https://timothywong.co/writing/how-the-knicks-won-the-2026-nba-title-despite-the-analytics/The Knicks' championship run is a reminder to distinguish player impact, team forecasts and the decisions made inside a series. An unexpected result is a reason to investigate, not proof that a model failed.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/the-future-of-data-science-in-an-ai-world/https://timothywong.co/writing/the-future-of-data-science-in-an-ai-world/AI didn't kill data science. It killed the version of data science that was just running queries and writing decks. The work moves up the stack - from analysis to system, from model to harness.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/from-ml-models-to-ai-analytics-systems/https://timothywong.co/writing/from-ml-models-to-ai-analytics-systems/ML platform discipline transfers to AI analytics systems - feature stores become semantic layers, drift detection still applies. The serving layer is where the bar goes up, and eval is the piece without a shared standard.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/the-80-percent-is-commoditized/https://timothywong.co/writing/the-80-percent-is-commoditized/Anyone can build now. The next decade belongs to whoever closes the last 20% with real memory, context, and precision.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/nobodys-hiring-for-output-anymore/https://timothywong.co/writing/nobodys-hiring-for-output-anymore/The labor market isn't disappearing. It's repricing around who can think, decide, and own outcomes.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/agents-as-employees-phase/https://timothywong.co/writing/agents-as-employees-phase/Most teams still define agents as human roles. The longer-term shift is toward workflow-native systems, review discipline, and context infrastructure.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/ai-native-is-not-ai-assisted/https://timothywong.co/writing/ai-native-is-not-ai-assisted/There's a difference between using AI and restructuring around it.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.airwallex.com/global/blog/the-real-value-of-AI-in-analyticshttps://www.airwallex.com/global/blog/the-real-value-of-AI-in-analyticsDecision latency is the real metric, not chat interfaces or dashboards.Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/openclaw-week-two/https://timothywong.co/writing/openclaw-week-two/Capability is no longer the bottleneck. Operational economics, context engineering, and governance are.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/the-skills-that-survive-ai/https://timothywong.co/writing/the-skills-that-survive-ai/What separates people who thrive in AI-native orgs from those who are stuck.Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/ai-at-scale-is-a-systems-problem/https://timothywong.co/writing/ai-at-scale-is-a-systems-problem/Most companies don't have an AI problem. They have a data readiness and decision problem.Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timothywong.co/writing/what-ai-native-actually-feels-like/https://timothywong.co/writing/what-ai-native-actually-feels-like/Memory, tools and reusable workflows turn an AI assistant into an operating layer. The enterprise gap is the environment around the model.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT