Kerry Ritter

Four Qwen 35B MoEs, one 6GB laptop GPU, and a Fireship prompt.

The new Qwen benchmarks sit next to Opus.

I still think clean systems are how codebases grow, especially under AI velocity.

On high-stakes screens, 300 milliseconds can feel like you skipped the work.

A disabled Submit button is not safety; it is a wall with no sign.

One AI agent is one set of blind spots grading its own work.

Stop treating coding agents like a slot machine.

Every other industry runs a night shift.

Cursor has the sharpest read on where software is going, and I'm still not using it.

The model is commoditized; the harness is the craft.

The 'AI is just Uber' doom thread gets the subsidy right and the ending wrong: gouging needs captive buyers, and open models mean you were never captive.

Chat doesn't replace your interface - it replaces navigation.

The era of the individual coder is ending.

Backend architecture sets the ceiling on every experience built on top of it.

While engineering teams debate Redux vs.

Between 2022 and 2024, 250,000 tech workers were laid off.

Every line you write is a tax on the company's future.

Verbose communication is a systemic efficiency loss.

Most catastrophic project failures aren't crashes or null checks.