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Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

A short pep talk I delivered to kick off a Three-Day Startup challenge event. And overwhelming confirmation that the lesson is correct.

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

Beginners tend to prioritize the wrong things when learning to code. This is my advice for what to focus on.

The coordination work that holds projects together disappears the moment it works. On the unfairness of recognition and finding leaders who see it anyway.

A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are...

Just want to casually talk about minimalism with everyone. I quite like this lifestyle, but that doesn't mean everyone needs to be a minimalist. Some people ...

This is a memo I published internally to my team at Monarch. I'm sharing it more publicly in case it helps other software engineering teams that are managing...

The barrier to entry for building software has collapsed. The barrier to building something that matters hasn’t moved an inch.

When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.

Random thoughts

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

A post from alan w. smith

A comprehensive guide to Claude Code from someone who's been using coding AI since 2021. Learn the 5 pillars of agentic coding, custom commands, and advanced...

After learning that people were finding my content via LLMs, I tried using said LLMs to make them find me even more often!