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.
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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.
Read more →Dirty Runtime
AI wrote polished React code for my dashboard. It compiled. It rendered. And the logic was dead wrong. Debugging AI code is harder because it never hesitates.
Read more →Pumping for a Fix
Small changes compound. A pretty terminal, a green checkmark, a checked-off task. These tiny dopamine hits aren't distractions. They are the fuel.
Read more →Nothing to Penetrate
An AI lab called its new model too dangerous for public release. It scanned a codebase hardened by decades of discipline and found nothing to penetrate.
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