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Big tech engineers need big egos
I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years
Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering
Insider amnesia
What's so hard about continuous learning?
LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards
Two different tricks for fast LLM inference
On screwing up
Large tech companies don't need heroes
Getting the main thing right
How does AI impact skill formation?
You have to know how to drive the car
How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
I'm addicted to being useful
Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers
The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence
2025 was an excellent year for this blog
Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter
Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
You can't design software you don't work on
Nobody knows how large software products work
AI detection tools cannot prove that text is AI-generated
How good engineers write bad code at big companies
Becoming unblockable
Why it takes months to tell if new AI models are good
Only three kinds of AI products actually work
Writing for AIs is a good way to reach more humans
To get better at technical writing, lower your expectations
Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail?
Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail?
Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?
Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?
What have we learned about building agentic AI tools?
We are in the "gentleman scientist" era of AI research
How I provide technical clarity to non-technical leaders
GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me
How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer
What is "good taste" in software engineering?
AI coding agents rely too much on fallbacks
Endless AI-generated Wikipedia
What I learned building an AI-driven spaced repetition app
AI is good news for Australian and European software engineers
If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
The whole point of OpenAI's Responses API is to help them hide reasoning traces
'Make invalid states unrepresentable' considered harmful
An unofficial FAQ for Stripe's new "Tempo" blockchain
Seeing like a software company
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
Finding the low-hanging fruit
Everything I know about good API design
Don't feed me AI slop
The famous "bottomless pit" AI greentext is fake
Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5
AI interpretability has the same problems as philosophy of mind
Why I don't allow AI-generated content on my blog
Trying to impress people you don't respect
The refusal problem in large language models
Can small AI models think as well as large ones?
What kind of work I want (in 2025)
Do not yell at the language model
The case for regulating AI companions
How to actually use Model Context Protocol
Vibe coding and the silent AI war inside tech companies
Practical notes on getting LLMs to generate new ideas