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AI Coding Agents Are Already Commoditized

Every service should have a killswitch – sean goedecke

The first big AI disaster is yet to happen

The Illusion of “The Illusion of Thinking”

Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally

In defense of shallow technical knowledge

Patience too cheap to meter

Diffusion models explained simply

Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models

Getting things “done” in large tech companies

Engineers Who Won't Commit

Why are big tech companies so slow?

In defense of ruthless managers

Knowing where your engineer salary comes from

The future of AI is Ruby on Rails

Great software design looks underwhelming

The good times in tech are over

What's next after the AI bubble bursts?

Building your sense of what's important at a tech company

To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't

Engineers who won’t commit force bad decisions

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer

Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?

Good engineers are right, a lot

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

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

Writing a tech blog people want to read

Glue Work Considered Harmful

Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies

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

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