Committed Raw
Open-source maintainers are drowning in AI-generated pull requests. The answer is not banning LLMs or accepting everything. It is something simpler: trust.
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Warm Starts
Your code runs better after a warm cache. So do you. Here is why workspace comfort is infrastructure for better engineering.
Read more →Token Undressed: What AI Costs Are About to Expose
AI tokens went from infinite to expensive overnight. Now budgets, team dynamics, and performance metrics are about to shift in ways nobody planned for.
Read more →Getting Looped
Anthropic says coding is solved and all you need are agentic loops. But their own terminal flickered for 14 months. The receipts tell a different story.
Read more →Stripped for Parts
DeepSeek V4 Pro grilled me for specs and simulated every code path, finding bugs I missed. Inference is in free fall. The hardware says otherwise.
Read more →Naked in Production: What Happens After the Tutorial Ends
Tutorials feel like progress until the blank editor opens and the illusion breaks. Real growth starts on the other side of that blinking cursor.
Read more →Exposed and Still Shipping
AI vendors predict the end of developers. History suggests otherwise. The anxiety is real, but the antidote is not reassurance. It is action.
Read more →Premature Articulation: 12 Phrases That Kill Good Code
Engineers reach for familiar slogans instead of real analysis. Here are twelve thought-terminating phrases that ship bad code, and what to say instead.
Read more →Going Bare in Production
Most engineers solve problems by adding code. The best engineers solve them by removing it. Why subtraction is the discipline that makes systems last.
Read more →Calling a Professional
A day and a half per week wasted on commits and reviews. The fix is not more effort. It is calling a specialist.
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