Thoughts
Ideas and observations written to capture what mattered in the moment.
- Why Technical Skills Matter More in the Age of AI Jan 1, 2026
- Two-stage AI calls for structured output Sep 15, 2025
- A major edge human coders have over AI is short-term memory in the form of intuition Sep 4, 2025
- Perceived Intelligence Is The Lowest Common Denominator Aug 31, 2025
- Perfection is the precursor to automation Aug 13, 2025
- AI LLMs think out loud Jul 29, 2025
- AI Honeymoon Phase Jul 3, 2025
- AI gives devs more leverage Jul 1, 2025
- Why Now is the Best Time to Learn to Code Jun 13, 2025
- How to Talk to GenAI Jun 11, 2025
- There's never been a better time to learn to code May 15, 2025
- AI doesn't have to make you lazy May 14, 2025
- AI Might Like 🍝 Code May 11, 2025
- AI is a tool, not a human Apr 21, 2025
- AI tools will create more coders, not less Apr 21, 2025
- Hands-off Leadership Transition Oct 3, 2024
- AI and Knowledge Work Jun 17, 2024
- Learning to code is like learning a human language Jun 12, 2024
- How does an LLM perform actions? May 10, 2024
- Why AI Won't Replace Developers Mar 15, 2024
- Threads vs Insta Feb 12, 2024
- Network Effect vs Trend Jan 12, 2024
- You love what you become good at (even though you suck at it at first) Dec 24, 2023
- Every output of an LLM is a hallucination Dec 24, 2023
- Work Life Balance Dec 22, 2023
- Mastery Dec 21, 2023
- Reading code like a human Dec 6, 2023
- Everything humans do is natural Dec 1, 2023
- Coding skills will be more useful with AI, not less Dec 1, 2023
- LLMs are dreamers. Dec 1, 2023
- Art of Negotiation Aug 10, 2023
- Psychology of Manipulation Aug 9, 2023
- Learn the boring fundamentals Aug 1, 2023
- Coding jobs are safest from AI May 16, 2023
- An issue with the AI paperclip optimizer theory May 10, 2023
- 2023 is start of AI augmentation, not replacement May 9, 2023
- Why can AI chatbots produce scary outputs? Feb 18, 2023
- ChatGPT in School Feb 9, 2023
- Most ideas are recycled Jan 2, 2023
- Short term happy is long term unhappy Jan 2, 2023
- ChatGPT Dec 20, 2022
- A real verdict by an imaginary jury Sep 16, 2022
- Product Builder Perspective Aug 15, 2022
- There's no Us and Them Apr 3, 2022
- Neural Networks work but we don't know why Feb 18, 2022
- Following through Aug 3, 2021
- Over-communication is far cheaper than the wrong direction. Nov 4, 2020
- Knowledge Checkpoints Apr 3, 2020
- Coding principles Mar 9, 2020
- There're many ways to software craftsmanship Jan 2, 2020
- Admire the distance, not the destination Sep 3, 2019
- Learning by doing Jul 3, 2019
- Random Remote Work Thoughts May 3, 2019
- Developing Async Sense in JavaScript Sep 27, 2018
- Anyone can learn anything Sep 1, 2018