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Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work

May 21, 2025 │ ai

Diffusion models explained simply

May 19, 2025 │ ai, explainers, diffusion

Why strong engineers are rarely blocked

May 17, 2025 │ good engineers

Practical advice for engineers in these troubled times

May 17, 2025 │ tech companies, zirp

For many, patience is the killer LLM feature

May 17, 2025 │ ai

Why can't language models come up with new ideas?

May 11, 2025 │ ai

The importance of virtue in software engineering

May 10, 2025 │ emotional regulation, good engineers

How projects fail at large tech companies

May 8, 2025 │ shipping, tech companies

I don't care about your magic prompts

May 6, 2025 │ ai, prompting

Getting things "done" in large tech companies

May 6, 2025 │ shipping, tech companies

The valley of engineering despair

April 30, 2025 │ shipping, emotional regulation

Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

April 28, 2025 │ ai, ethics, alignment failures, openai, model personality

Why are model arena leaderboards dominated by slop?

April 14, 2025 │ ai

Anarchy in the East India Company

April 25, 2025 │ book reports

Senior engineers should make side bets

April 25, 2025 │ good engineers, shipping