artificial intelligence

Everyone's worried about slop, but good code will prevail, not only because we want it to, but because economic forces demand it.

fragments 18 Feb 2026

As software development shifts from requiring specialized skills—built on multiple layers of technical understanding—to describing intent in plain English (or your language of choice), the act of producing software appears to become accessible to a much wider audience. The people best positioned to excel may not be well versed in software at all, but rather those who are good at expressing ideas clearly, thinking iteratively, and breaking problems down.

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

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.

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.

Where to focus investments to best leverage AI tooling

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

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

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 …

Claude Code nails developer experience. But as capabilities grow, so does complexity. The best tools disappear - they don't become things you have to manage.

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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A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!

Hey folks. You know how programming is hard in 1994. You need books, help files, manuals, references to learn about a certain feature. You read all those. Then you go through endless iteration of trial and errors to find out how to accomplish a certain task. Well, I found a revolutionary way to write code. You see, I got this CD-ROM from a friend. It's full of public domain sample code for every kind of application you could write. You want to write a file manager like Norton Commander? Well,

I've done quite a few projects with ChatGPT. I just can't vibe (no pun intended) with any of the agent tools or AI plugins etc. Also not having to worry about API costs is the main reason so I can be as spammy as I like.

I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …

A 40-year coding veteran explores AI pair programming with Cursor, finding 2X productivity gains, new challenges, and a synergistic human-machine alliance.

A personal guide on using AI Code Prep GUI, Cline, and various free AI web interfaces like Gemini, Grok, Deepseek, and Poe for cost-effective coding and debugging.

It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability to instantly create a whole scene instead of going line by line, word by word is incredibly powerful.