Jason Larsen

A new term has been making the rounds, one anybody who has been using agents to do any serious work over the past year will immediately understand: Cognitive Debt. "...by weeks 7 or 8, one team hit a wall.

Creating a (buzzword warning 🤢) "AI-Native" workspace without touching existing stuff or giving a fully autonomous agent unhinged access.

Have you ever seen one of those YouTube videos from some 21 year old day trader standing in front of a (rented) lambo, selling you a course on how to become rich?

So it's the year of our Lord 2026 and you've decided you procrastinated understanding how AI is going to change your career as a software engineer for too long.

At a work offsite in mid-2023 I gave a talk to the engineering team about how AI was already changing coding.

And Learning to Love “Legacy” Systems Antifragility has been an incredibly important idea to me over the past year.

Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. — First Principle of the Agile Manifesto Breaking up work into small chunks and continuously integrating them back together is an energizing way to…

Big Changes Are Fragile Big changes carry more risk than small changes.

A Black Swan is an unpredictable event—a massive shock to our systems.

This morning I rested my chin on the sill of the open window as I showered.

I’ve been thinking a lot about change of late.

A few months ago I had a moment of existential crisis.

The reason I got into programming as a teenager was because of video games.

Last year our team decided to start documenting a list of our pain points as developers.

It’s that time again… monolith vs microservices architecture debate on twitter!