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The OpenAI house style is exhausting

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When you should lie to the language model

April 21, 2025 │ ai

Is using AI wrong? A review of six popular anti-AI arguments

April 20, 2025 │ ai, ethics

Principles for coding securely with LLMs

April 15, 2025 │ ai, software design

Designing software that could possibly work

April 14, 2025 │ software design, shipping

Debugging, emotional resilience, and mental models

April 27, 2025 │ shipping, emotional regulation, debugging

Wicked features

April 12, 2025 │ tech companies, software design, large codebases

Software engineering under the spotlight

April 12, 2025 │ tech companies

Dangerous advice for software engineers

April 5, 2025 │ good engineers, tech companies

How strong engineers break the rules and get away with it

April 5, 2025 │ good engineers, shipping

In defense of ruthless managers

March 31, 2025 │ tech companies, management

How to work in tech when your job isn't safe

March 28, 2025 │ tech companies, zirp, career

The future of AI is Ruby on Rails

March 20, 2025 │ ai

Engineers should state the obvious

March 20, 2025 │ good engineers

The good times in tech are over

March 16, 2025 │ tech companies, zirp