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• AI makes weak engineers less harmful

  May 09, 2026
• Notes on incidents

  May 08, 2026
• Why hasn't longer-horizon training slowed AI progress?

  May 07, 2026
• Why I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes"

  May 03, 2026
• Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

  Apr 24, 2026
• Luddites and burning down AI datacenters

  Apr 22, 2026
• Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments

  Apr 18, 2026
• Programming (with AI agents) as theory building

  Apr 03, 2026
• Working on products people hate

  Mar 27, 2026
• Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code

  Mar 26, 2026
• Big tech engineers need big egos

  Mar 14, 2026
• I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years

  Mar 06, 2026
• Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering

  Mar 03, 2026
• Insider amnesia

  Feb 23, 2026
• What's so hard about continuous learning?

  Feb 23, 2026
• LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards

  Feb 17, 2026
• Two different tricks for fast LLM inference

  Feb 15, 2026
• On screwing up

  Feb 11, 2026
• Large tech companies don't need heroes

  Feb 08, 2026
• Getting the main thing right

  Feb 05, 2026
• How does AI impact skill formation?

  Jan 31, 2026
• You have to know how to drive the car

  Jan 26, 2026
• How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

  Jan 24, 2026
• I'm addicted to being useful

  Jan 20, 2026
• Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers

  Jan 17, 2026
• The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence

  Jan 05, 2026
• 2025 was an excellent year for this blog

  Jan 03, 2026
• Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

  Jan 02, 2026
• Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

  Dec 28, 2025
• You can't design software you don't work on

  Dec 27, 2025