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The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the...

And why does the brain use creatine anyway?

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

In an office, some of your visibility is free. Go remote and it drops to zero. Working loudly makes your impact visible as you do it—not after the fact in a...

I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been...

Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.

This is not about grammar. It is about speed, clarity, and judgment.

After 27 years of writing code, I have stopped spending time on a long list of small but painful engineering tasks. AI agents now handle commit messages, pull...

During 2026 I shipped code I don't fully understand — and I was proud of it. On dialogue, authorship, and taste: what's left for engineers when AI writes the...

A bunch of reasons to write code in 2026

In the before times, code was deterministic and self documenting. Why don't we show AI what we want by... just writing some of the code?

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that...

AI lets anyone build software, just like DIY lets anyone build a shelf. But building for others has demands that building for yourself does not.

Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.