Race Condition

Anthropic released Opus 5 on July 24, 2026.

An emoticon-embellished joke that I made to Claude Code led me down a deep rabbit hole.

A fable is a story that speaks: Latin fabula, from fari, “to speak”, and in the genre as Aesop and La Fontaine practiced it, the speaking is done by animals.

Every prompt I send to Claude Code carries a hidden dial.

I was preparing a new release of my German verb-conjugation iOS app, Konjugieren, and I noticed something strange about its on-device AI tutor.

The single highest-leverage practice in agentic iOS coding, as of mid-2026, is the one Anthropic’s Best Practices for Claude Code names directly: “Give Claude a way to verify its work.”

Default SwiftUI is the iOS equivalent of AI slop.

Markdown is, for most writing tasks that a developer encounters, the right tool.

Not all documentation serves the same purpose.

Reviewing your own code is hard.

A professional translator produces roughly 2,000 to 3,000 words per day.

The standard narrative about AI-assisted software development is seductively unidirectional: describe what you want, the AI writes the code, and you ship faster.

One of the primary duties of a software developer is enhancing and fixing existing codebases.

One of the most-read posts on this blog is this one about typical iOS take-home coding exercises.

Loyal readers of this blog may have noticed a decrease in post frequency since January 2023.