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The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence

January 5, 2026 │ book reports

2025 was an excellent year for this blog

January 3, 2026 │ yearly wrapup, meta

Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

January 2, 2026 │ ai, ethics, alignment failures, policy

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

December 28, 2025 │ tech companies

You can't design software you don't work on

December 27, 2025 │ software design, tech companies

Nobody knows how large software products work

December 24, 2025 │ good engineers, tech companies

AI detection tools cannot prove that text is AI-generated

December 5, 2025 │ ai

How good engineers write bad code at big companies

November 29, 2025 │ good engineers, tech companies

Becoming unblockable

November 26, 2025 │ good engineers

Why it takes months to tell if new AI models are good

November 22, 2025 │ ai, openai

Only three kinds of AI products actually work

November 16, 2025 │ ai

Writing for AIs is a good way to reach more humans

November 14, 2025 │ writing, ai

To get better at technical writing, lower your expectations

November 9, 2025 │ writing, tech companies

Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail?

November 3, 2025 │ ai, tech companies, papers

Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

October 30, 2025 │ ai

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