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AI makes weak engineers less harmful

May 9, 2026 │ ai, good engineers, tech companies

Notes on incidents

May 8, 2026 │ reliability

Why hasn't longer-horizon training slowed AI progress?

May 7, 2026 │ ai

Why I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes"

May 3, 2026 │ tech companies, staff

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

April 24, 2026 │ ai

Blood in the datacenter

April 22, 2026 │ ai, ethics, politics, book reports, luddites

Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments

April 18, 2026 │ ai, ethics, politics

Programming (with AI agents) as theory building

April 3, 2026 │ ai, naur theory

Working on products people hate

March 27, 2026 │ good engineers

Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code

March 26, 2026 │ tech companies, good engineers

Big tech engineers need big egos

March 14, 2026 │ tech companies, good engineers

I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years

March 6, 2026 │ tech companies, ai, zirp

Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering

March 3, 2026 │ ai, model personality, anthropomorphism

What's so hard about continuous learning?

February 23, 2026 │ ai

Insider amnesia

February 23, 2026 │ tech companies