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Why are model arena leaderboards dominated by slop?
April 14, 2025 │ ai
Anarchy in the East India Company
April 25, 2025 │ book reports
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April 25, 2025 │ good engineers, shipping
The OpenAI house style is exhausting
April 25, 2025 │ ai
When you should lie to the language model
April 21, 2025 │ ai
Is using AI wrong? A review of six popular anti-AI arguments
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
Wicked features
April 12, 2025 │ tech companies, software design
Software engineering under the spotlight
April 12, 2025 │ tech companies
Dangerous advice for software engineers
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How strong engineers break the rules and get away with it
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In defense of ruthless managers
March 31, 2025 │ tech companies