artificial intelligence

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

Right now, it's too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn't move. We are silently trading fu...

Every AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose.

TL;DR. Claude would rather reinvent the wheel than pip install one.

There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last 7 years. While GPT-2 could only do software engineering tasks t

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ai is here. so i'm spending 3 months coding the old way

Does AI-assisted cognition threaten human development? Explore the risks of AI-assisted thinking and learn strategies to use AI tools without freezing your critical thinking.

Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities?

Guidelines for programming when code is cheap.

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For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2. A couple of weeks ago, after ~250 hours of effort over three months3 on evenings, weekends, and vacation days, I finally released syntaqlite (GitHub), fulfilling this long-held wish. And I believe the main reason this happened was because of AI coding agents4. Of course, there’s no shortage of posts claiming that AI one-shot their project or pushing back and declaring that AI...

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

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I asked Claude Code to remove Jquery. It failed miserably. - Thursday, 12 February 2026 - Alex's blog'

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.