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2026 February

Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

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A friend of mine recently attended an open forum panel about how engineering orgs can better support their engineers. The themes that came up were not surprising:

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2026 January

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

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

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I’ve been in the mobile development industry for almost 15 years, and this AI/LLM era might be the worst. My work are mostly freelance, gigs, hourly, mile...

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2025 November

On January 6th, 1995 two bank robbers in Pittsburgh confused law enforcement by not making any attempts to conceal their faces but instead brazenly looking at security cameras as if they were invisible. The reason is that they actually thought they were.

2025 October

AI didn’t take my job, it took my authority. From losing an argument to my wife to debating clients armed with AI-generated flowcharts, I’m left wondering: do I still want to be a programmer, or just someone explaining why the confident answer isn’t always the right one?

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2025 September

The Words of Ed Zitron, a PR person and writer.

Big part of discussion around vibe coding revolves around pace of development while it was never a key constraint in succeeding with a product.

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2025 July

On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.

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LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.

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