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Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI

October 12, 2026 │ ethics, luddites, politics, ai

Don't diagnose your opponents

October 11, 2026 │ ethics

Software's centaur age may last decades

October 10, 2026 │ ai, tech companies

How to read code

October 7, 2026 │ good engineers, explainers, ai

Shipping is the foundation

October 3, 2026 │ good engineers, shipping, tech companies

Superpersuasion will look like bribery

October 3, 2026 │ ai, ai safety

Do not build the LLM torture factory

October 2, 2026 │ steering, model welfare

Human-AI partnerships are for alignment, not capability

September 27, 2026 │ ai

Advice to a beginning software engineer

September 26, 2026 │ tech companies, ai

You should all be asking way more questions

September 25, 2026 │ good engineers, ai

System One models like Jev can train their own replacements

September 20, 2026 │ system one, ai

Grit your teeth and ship it

September 20, 2026 │ shipping, emotional regulation

Two techniques for working with System One models

September 18, 2026 │ ai, system one

Jev means structured output is interesting again

September 16, 2026 │ ai, system one

Tell agents the why, not just the how

September 15, 2026 │ ai, prompting

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