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The skill that outlasts coding
Using AI to write code is the easy part.
Building the system that writes the code is the job.
A coworker scheduled a “Daily use of AI” meeting a couple of days ago.
I thought we were going to talk tools. Claude Enterprise, Opus, agents,...
Time-to-market vs time-to-regret
A decade ago, when my wife and I realised we couldn’t get ahead with the salaries we had, I started freelancing.
I applied to as many projects as I could, respecting the deadlines and the fact that I still had my full-time job.
But one da...
The Year of Side Projects
I shipped two apps in the last three months.
Both are live. Both lost money.
I still call them a success.
tl;dr;
Build.
Inference is still cheap; open-source models are on the rise, and for the price of a coffee, you can build the a...
AI is too dumb. Let me do this!
Hi friend,
There’s a huge gap in how people on 𝕏 and people I talk to experience agentic coding.
I’m living in parallel worlds right now:
“it’s 2026, can’t believe people still watch coding agents code and review their changes” is the c...
The Local Agentic Future is Already Here — Just Not All at Once
Hi friend,
First, thanks for all the feedback on my hand-crafted newsletter 🤌🧑🍳 Why you should be excited about local LLMs too. I see you liked it, so I’m continuing in the same fashion, until someone gets tired of my typos.
For examp...
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Senior SWE. Building a web app two decades ago has changed my life. I build software, write, and educate future software engineers.
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