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Creating code with AI is cheap, owning it will always be expensive.

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

AI is using AI to use AI to do my job! What do I do now?

Most small business ideas are a hard job attached to an easy idea. Instead, you should do your hardest idea.

I'm a software engineer, completing 10 years of professional experience this year. I started my career as a web frontend engineer (it was easier for me to de...

How front-loading scrutiny through multi-agent validation rebuilt trust in AI-assisted development.

We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new...

In this essay, Carson Gross argues that as AI makes code cheap to produce, understanding code becomes the expensive and scarce resource. He warns of the...

A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

An internal Slack message I shared with the Amp team a few weeks ago.

In recent months I've heard of several teams with an interesting policy: each pull request should be no more than a few files, and no more t...

Loris Cro's Blog

Franz turns ten this year. Franz 6 ships now. A founder's note on a weekend prototype, a fundraise we skipped, and why one person is the point.

A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop

How AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I'm doing to keep my hands dirty.

Yakko Majuri's blog about software engineering, startups, AI agents, and open source — by the founder of Skald Labs and former PostHog engineer.

The percentage of failing grades in multiple UC Berkeley computer science classes in spring 2026 is significantly higher than past semesters and marks a...

A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.

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

LLMs generate code, but they cannot see the engineering decisions that keep systems safe.