Stop generating, start thinking
Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
Whenever logical processes of thought are employed there is an opportunity for the machine.
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code.
AI coding tools amplify whatever they can access. In codebases where institutional knowledge lives in engineers’ heads only, AI amplifies nothing.
Companies are ditching junior engineers en masse. They’ll tell you it’s because AI writes better code. They’re right...but also missing the point.
You're shaping the code or text the way a potter shapes clay: push a little, spin the wheel, look, push again.
How Claude Code is showing us what apps may become.
Clothes have never been cheaper. Same thing is happening with software.
Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.
A hands-on program for designers and PMs who want to actually build—using Cursor, Supabase, Vercel, and AI-first workflows.
AI coding is making available paths of production which are cheaper, faster, and increasingly disconnected from the expertise of humans.
Programming with AI is still in its infancy, and yet it has already redefined what programming will be about in the immediate future.
A side project that went viral on Hacker News recently.
One pattern comes along again and again, causing endless pain for developers, that is, creating mini-frameworks.
The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that’s fine. What's missing?
A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.
Design as a search, not a pipeline. How tools carry opinions, and how those opinions shape what feels “reasonable” to attempt.
The distance between "I want this" and "this exists" was measured in weeks, budgets, and expertise you didn't have.
A side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era.
The companies building AI are spending billions to acquire engineers, not replace them. Here’s why your job is safer than you think.