We became readable. What stays unread is the work.

Is software engineering solved? Depends who you ask. People selling LLMs proclaim that programming, software architecture, everything has been solved. (Apart from making their company profitable.)…

When candidates put AI on their resume, the key thing I try to find out is whether they used evals. How did you measure making improvements?

The ethical, legal, environmental and societal concerns around LLMs have been well covered. In this piece, I’d like to instead focus on a couple of specific issues that I have encountered which…

death of partialization in the LLM age

Back in October, I wrote “Schneier on LLM vulnerabilities, agentic AI, and ‘trusting trust'” about fundamental architectural weaknesses in current LLMs and agents, and why I…

I can’t help but feel that this line will feature heavily in the documentary a future generation makes about this time in history: We unknowingly gave particularly high rewards for metaphors with…

AI-assisted coding works best as design dialogue, not delegation fantasy. Teams that win use agents to expose assumptions and tighten feedback loops.

Major Local->Admin Linux Hack, The PAI 5.0 Release, Deep SF Analysis, More Supply Chain Hacks, The Perils of Not Hiring Juniors, and more...

I sit on a handful of boards, and the spread between companies treating AI as operating-critical and those treating it as a side project is widening every month.The good news: the difference…

A talk with Jay Hasbrouck on organizational imagination, speculative prototyping, and how organizations can recognize unfamiliar possibilities before they fit the roadmap, the metrics, or the…

This week, I joined Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson on the Django Chat podcast for DjangoCon Europe Recap + Other News. You can also watch it on DjangoTV via YouTube. On this episode, we discussed…

A mindset I've struggled with since college is that if I'm not being productive then I'm wasting my time. I thought that mindset would go away once I graduated but I feel like it has made a comeback,…

Every time I see "people who don't use AI will be left behind," I roll my eyes. When migraine brain's post came up on the trending Bearblog posts I gave out a little "huzzah!" because I love seeing…

FOSS tools are empowering and increasingly valuable in a world where model providers can degrade your experience. So I'm rerunning an experiment with OpenCode and Kimi K2.6.

Summary of my talk at Sequoia Ascent

Stack Overflow turned programming into a shared conversation. AI turns it into a private loop. The answers are faster and more tailored—but something essential may be getting lost in the process. Net…

In the past 2-3 months, spending on AI agents has exploded at many tech companies, Details from 15 of them, including the different ways they are coping with this realization.

When my agent produces bad output, I don't switch models. I open a markdown file. I don't comparison-shop. ChatGPT might be better than Claude this week — I genuinely don't know, because checking…

Princeton Scientist: We Don’t Understand AI | Tom Griffiths Transcript Tom Griffiths:One of the, I think, interesting challenges we have at the moment is having built systems that we…

The rise of coding agents has made it easy for a single engineer to spend thousands of dollars a day in LLM tokens. This is a new class of expense, and it will change the future cost structure of…

The designer/developer handoff has been with us for years. And even though today's AI tools are dramatically increasing everyone's output, the walls between disciplines haven't changed. So now we're…

In the age of ChatGPT‑style assistants, a paragraph that “sounds right” can appear in seconds. Yet the very thing that makes AI so attractive, its ability to produce plausible text on…

I wrote this article to be a prompt that you can paste into your AI agent of choice so you can set up this same time management system. Just paste the entire article below—including this very…

Some thoughts on the debate around the "singularity": is AI intelligence reaching a plateau, or is it likely to continue?

Literally anyone can use AI to blindly make a thing. What will differentiate you is how you demonstrate an ability to use it critically. It’s a tool, and just like any other tool it’s…

This is the second post I’m writing about things that stood out in conversations and presentations at PressConf. I came back from PressConf with a feeling I haven’t been able to shake: the AI…

We are joined by two folks from Neuroaigent: Bob Skinner, and Justin Coleman to have a conversation about where AI is actually delivering ROI right now. Topics include the “it’s just a…

Can AI tools really build accessible websites, and how far does “100% accessible” hold up in practice? In this session, Hampus will walk through a AI-built website that we tested with our…

Every PR I open goes through four people. The scribe writes the description. The lawyer handles the review. The detective investigates CI failures. The nurse watches the build until it merges. None…

"100 terawatts of processing power" isn't a thing.

A collection of studies I've found particularly interesting because they exhibit: (1) generative structure, (2) a non-trivial selection gradient, and (3) clues about some hidden universal assembly…

When people refer to uncertainty they usually refer to “the model being uncertain about its predictions”.

Guiding Principals LLMs as Talking Machines, Not Thinking Machines LLMs are language tools, not thinking tools. That distinction drives most of how I use them. They generate coherent sentences by…

I’ve been using Gemini Pro for almost a year now. I pay google £14 a month and get a single seat on Business Workspace, 2Tb of storage and gemini pro. Plus some other stuff probably that I…

Strict No LLM / No AI Policy No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to…

It's always been useful to understand how work flows: handoffs, constraints, dependencies. When execution was slow, you had time to respond. At the speed of AI, that lag is gone. If you haven't built…

If you haven't seen Terminator, here's the quickest summary I can manage: Humanity in the future is fighting a war against robots. The robots send the Terminator back in time to find a woman (Sarah…

The post AI is Changing Data Engineering Fast! appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

Every time your load balancer sends a request to the wrong GPU, that GPU recomputes a prefill it already computed somewhere else. The KV cache for that 4,000-token system prompt exists. It’s just…

It’s been three months since I last wrote a line of code. I still deliver features. I still solve problems, tackle architecture challenges, review PRs. I’m not a PM. I’m not a tech…

What are AI tools and agents really, and how do they keep Context in check? Let's poke around Claude Code, do a few experiments, and find out!

My timeline is full of discussion about AI, and agentic coding. It makes me sad how culture-wars a lot of it is. Very strident. Very “you’re either with us, or you’re against us!”. For what it’s…

The shift from deterministic to probabilistic computing isn't just a technical upgrade. It's a change in how knowledge gets created.

OpenAI and Anthropic are converging on the same lesson: coding agents do not become reliable because the prompt is clever. They become reliable when the repo, tools, evals, traces, browser checks,…

2026 April Retrospective This month we got to hear the first gong that signals the beginning of the end of what I like to call the infinitely subsidized token era . Uh-oh! Rooh-rah! What does this…

The discourse on platform engineering Twitter and Reddit has been pretty consistent for months now: Terraform is dead, HCL is dead, the entire Infrastructure as Code stack is about to get vaporized…

I read a piece this week that gave language to something I had been circling for a while. Nilay Patel’s The People Do Not Yearn for Automation makes the case that the tech industry has what he…

The agents came online in 2030 and human society blossomed overnight. They managed the logistical friction of daily existence—sorting our emails, scheduling our appointments, and ordering our…