Articles
2026
Attention and feedback
Attention and feedback. That’s where the game is now.
Astra first impressions
Astra’s launch ruined my weekend plans. One billion tokens later, here are my first impressions.
Do I still need to read the code?
"Do I still need to read the code?" is fundamentally the wrong question.
Code Review Is the New Bottleneck
AI can generate 10,000 lines of code a day. Writing code was never the bottleneck. Now it definitely isn't. The teams winning aren't generating the most code—they have the best systems for validating it.
Why Learning AI Is Easy But Mastering It Is Brutally Hard
The gap between asking ChatGPT a few questions and orchestrating swarms of agents is the gap between plinking on a piano and playing Carnegie Hall.
A Coder's Christmas Tale 🎄
A festive poem about discovering the joy of limitless creation with AI—from subscription upgrades to a hundred-twenty-K lines of code.
The Slot Machine in Your IDE
I caught myself doing the 'just one more prompt' thing at 2 AM. The feature was done. I just couldn't stop. Then I realized where I'd felt this before.
AI Coding Agents Have Alzheimer's
Every conversation starts from zero. Every session, they forget everything about your codebase. This isn't a bug we can fix—it's baked into how they work.
2025
A Developer's Intuition About LLMs
LLMs aren't magic. They're basically fancy story-completion engines trained on internet text. Once you see it that way, everything clicks.
Architecture for the Age of AI
Remember all those 'enterprise architecture' patterns we argued about for years? Turns out they're exactly what AI coding agents need. Nobody saw that coming.
The Developer's Edge
Everyone thinks coding is about syntax and semicolons. It's actually a way of thinking. And it works on everything.
Business as Gradient Descent
The business world looks like chaos until you see it as a giant optimization problem. Turns out you already know how to solve those.