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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.

One of the best things about LLMs is that they'll write code for you, all day long. Who cares about DRY? You don't have to be the one updating the same long...

This npm guide helps you understand what npm is, what what makes npm a package manager, and how to use npm from a beginner's view.

AI made you faster. But you're not more productive; you're outsourcing the slow part to everyone else

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI — down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without...

You can have your cake and eat it, as long as you bake it carefully. ‘We can do this the quick way and pay later, or the thorough way and pay now.’ This seems...

A fable about ovens, founders, and the second-highest priority that never gets done.

Stillness amidst the chaos.

I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables....