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Akos KomuvesFor engineers who pair with AI as a coworker, keep the thinking, and ship value instead of slop.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 140 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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We went from human slop to AI slop. That’s fine.
AI-written code isn’t a new species of bad code.
It’s your average engineer’s code created at higher volume.
This is a boring conclusion I’ve been thinking about for some time. It won’t get you any clicks. It doesn’t imply AI will take yo...
Agentic coding is boring if you only write code
A game beyond the game.
The games I had the most fun with always had metagames.
In World of Warcraft, the core game is simple:
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Your character attacks mobs, the bad guys. Mobs die, give you XP, and some loot.
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You fight mobs at...
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...
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