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Good engineers are right, a lot

February 6, 2025 │ good engineers, tech companies, technical clarity

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer

February 4, 2025 │ ai, how to

Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?

February 1, 2025 │ ai, slop, ai writing

Are DeepSeek's new models really that fast and cheap?

January 31, 2025 │ ai, deepseek, inference

Why AI labs offer so many different models

January 28, 2025 │ ai

What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning with DeepSeek-R1?

January 26, 2025 │ ai, explainers, deepseek

Playing politics is how senior engineers protect their team

January 26, 2025 │ tech companies, ethics, policy

How I deal with being way more productive on some days than others

January 25, 2025 │ career

Why are big tech companies so slow?

January 24, 2025 │ tech companies

Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies

January 19, 2025 │ tech companies

Thinking clearly about software

January 18, 2025 │ good engineers, technical clarity

Giving pushback to leadership

January 16, 2025 │ tech companies, leaddev

Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact

January 14, 2025 │ tech companies, good engineers

Writing a tech blog people want to read

January 10, 2025 │ writing, meta

What it's like working for American companies as an Australian

January 10, 2025 │ tech companies, australia