artificial intelligence

When I talk to people about what I'm building, I give 'em the pitch on Docket being a note taking system specifically designed for regular meetings.

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Startups and scaleups are on a hiring spree for a software engineering role pioneered by Palantir. A deepdive into this role, and why FDEs are so popular in 2025

As a software engineer, how well do you have to understand your own codebase?

Good design for agents is not the same as good design for humans.

A bunch of reasons to write code in 2026

For those of you who don’t know, when I’m not writing novels, I spend my days as a software engineer, writing code. The software industry these days relies heavily on artificial intelligence. Because it has studied trillions of lines of publicly accessible source code, because code solves problems with testable right and wrong solutions, and because code is structured specifically to be understood by computers, AI has gotten very good at writing code.

How vLLM Semantic Router turns vllm-sr/auto into a bounded micro-agent runtime for Confidence, Ratings, ReMoM, Fusion, Workflows, and benchmark-shaped collaboration.

Alt title: The reports of tokenmaxxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.

A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...

At a Shift CTO Craft dinner in Toronto, senior engineering leaders debated AI ROI, code review bottlenecks, hiring, cognitive debt, and vendor lock-in.

AI helping pharmaceutical researchers query decades of information buried in PDF reports

AI-assisted coding is accelerating skill atrophy for developers who haven't built the foundations yet. Here's how to know which phase you're in — and what to do about it.

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.

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Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.

AI is doing to programming what framework-brain did to the frontend before. Deskilling, or just working at a higher level of abstraction?

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