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Everything I know about good system design

June 21, 2025 │ good engineers, software design

What's going to happen to junior engineers?

June 20, 2025 │ ai, zirp

Is this your brain on ChatGPT?

June 19, 2025 │ ai, papers

Every service should have a killswitch

June 19, 2025 │ good engineers, software design

Say "but yes", not "yes but"

June 13, 2025 │ tech companies, communication

The first big AI disaster is yet to happen

June 10, 2025 │ ai

The illusion of "The Illusion of Thinking"

June 8, 2025 │ ai, papers

AI interpretability is further along than I thought

June 7, 2025 │ ai, explainers, steering

Arguing point-by-point considered harmful

June 7, 2025 │ tech companies, communication

John Henry and the large language model

June 3, 2025 │ good engineers, ai

Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally

June 1, 2025 │ ai, explainers, deepseek, inference

It's not your codebase

May 30, 2025 │ tech companies

In defense of shallow technical knowledge

May 25, 2025 │ good engineers

How does ChatGPT work? What is AI, really?

May 24, 2025 │ ai, explainers

Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models

May 22, 2025 │ ai, diffusion