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2026 January

Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI. You, who are buying into the promise of docs entirely authored by LLMs without expert oversight or guidance. You, who unloaded the weight of docs on your devs’ shoulders, as if it was a trivial chore. You are making a big mistake. But you can still undo the damage.

TL;DR  Introduction  I first encountered the chatbot as a normal Eurostar customer while planning a trip. When it opened, it clearly told me that “the answers in this chatbot are generated by AI”, which is good disclosure but immediately raised my curiosity about how it worked and what its limits were. Eurostar publishes a […]

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A reflective essay exploring how classic LLM failure modes---limited context, overgeneration, poor generalization, and hallucination---are increasingly recognizable in everyday human conversation.

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

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Do we still need libraries of 3rd party code when AI agents are this good?

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Cursor is dying because cost-optimization forces models into tunnel vision. RAG agents fail because they only see what they search for. The superior workflow for 2026 is massive context windows (gemini 2.5 pro) and manual control. Stop letting agents hide code from the model.

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2025 December

"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer." That's Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and one of the most respected AI researchers alive, writing in December 2025

Principal software engineer with deep expertise in full-stack TypeScript, headless and kiosk browsers, and real-time media-centric systems.

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Why AI is unavoidable at work, how noise creeps in, and why choosing how you use AI now matters more than the tools themselves.

I’m a UI engineer turned founder with a background in startups. I co-founded QED in 2021, grew it, and eventually sold it to The Sandbox. Now, I’m focused on building in AI.

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I was recently recommended a YouTube video with the following title: <pre style=" display: block; font-family: monospace; font-size: 4px; l...

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Where to focus investments to best leverage AI tooling

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A personal recap of 2025 and a year of a new style of engineering.

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It's probably fine--unless you care about self-improvement or taking pride in your work.

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In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …

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Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent.

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