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Practical notes on getting LLMs to generate new ideas

July 15, 2025 │ ai

The three great virtues of an AI-assisted programmer

July 14, 2025 │ ai

Building an RTS where you issue orders to AI agents

July 14, 2025 │ ai, side projects, agents

METR's AI productivity study is really good

July 11, 2025 │ ai, papers

Why we should anthropomorphize LLMs

July 10, 2025 │ ai, ethics, anthropomorphism

Mecha-Hitler, Grok, and why it's so hard to give LLMs the right personality

July 9, 2025 │ ai, alignment failures, ethics, model personality, anthropomorphism

How I use LLMs to learn new subjects

July 8, 2025 │ ai, how to

The more senior engineers get, the more results matter

July 8, 2025 │ tech companies, staff

Building tiny AI tools for developer productivity

July 5, 2025 │ ai

How to become passionate about delivering shareholder value

July 5, 2025 │ tech companies, zirp

What happens when engineers work more than one job

July 3, 2025 │ interviewing, tech companies, career

Continuous AI in software engineering

July 2, 2025 │ ai

I don't care if my manager writes code

June 26, 2025 │ tech companies, management, zirp

AI coding agents are already commoditized

June 25, 2025 │ ai

Pure and impure software engineering

June 22, 2025 │ software design, tech companies, large codebases