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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

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

Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews

October 25, 2025 │ good engineers, software design, explainers, ai

Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?

October 21, 2025 │ ai

What have we learned about building agentic AI tools?

October 19, 2025 │ ai

We are in the "gentleman scientist" era of AI research

October 18, 2025 │ ai

How I provide technical clarity to non-technical leaders

October 12, 2025 │ tech companies

GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me

October 7, 2025 │ ai, projects

How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer

October 4, 2025 │ good engineers, tech companies

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