Jamie’s blog

I’ve been struggling a bit with two seemingly contradictory views that I hold: I hugely value AI-generated code, 3D models, and even mockups of my kitchen redecoration.

Not enough software developers have understood the seismic change in the industry.

There is little doubt in my mind that AI coding models have fundamentally changed the nature of software development in 2026.

This post probably is not for you.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Look, I get it, you’re sick to death of hearing about AI.

I don’t really believe in the threat of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence—human-level intelligence) partly because I don’t believe in the possibility of AGI and I’m highly skeptical that the current technology underpinning LLMs will provide a route to…

I’m attending the Rails At Scale event prior to RailsWorld in Amsterdam and attendees were asked to provide a brief piece of the challenges of using Rails “at scale” (for whatever scale means to us).

Years ago I moved from being one of the developers of Podia to being the CTO.

This week, as everyone was trying out the latest OpenAI image generation tools and flooding their social media with them, it occurred to me: are we losing our taste?