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Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

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Working with designers

November 7, 2026 │ tech companies, working with

A database is a store for global variables

November 6, 2026 │ software design

LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights

November 3, 2026 │ ai

Audience capture

November 3, 2026 │ writing, meta

Reliably aligning LLMs is impossible in principle

November 2, 2026 │ ai, alignment failures, apocalypse, ai safety

Fast and slow ways to improve your reputation

November 1, 2026 │ tech companies, good engineers

Elegance and intelligence are anticorrelated

October 30, 2026 │ mathematics, ai, technical clarity

You can just ask AI to do things

October 29, 2026 │ ai, prompting

Getting good at AI takes time and practice

October 28, 2026 │ ai, prompting

Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies

October 25, 2026 │ tech companies, cynicism

Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages

October 23, 2026 │ software design

Laypeople support technical fields for technology, not art

October 20, 2026 │ ai, mathematics

What requirements don't you have?

October 19, 2026 │ software design, ai

Writing is no longer proof of work

October 18, 2026 │ tech companies, writing

AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects

October 16, 2026 │ ai