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Businesses are increasingly combining specialized AI models rather than relying on one dominant provider.

Why Jev's fast, cheap, structured decisions could matter more for automation work than AGI models

AI can make software easier to build, but it cannot remove the hard, fuzzy decisions that make a product and company successful.

3.8 Flash's speed and price give Google a way to counterposition on their strengths

AI changes how you analyze codebase quality.

Working with AI coding agents all day is tiring in a different way.

The endless OpenAI/Anthropic drama carousel distracts from how Google might be the big winner of the AI race.

Machine empathy made great engineers.

There's a lot of despair from engineers at the start of their careers right now.

If you use Claude Desktop for chat but not Cowork, you can reclaim 10GB+ of disk space by deleting the VM bundles and disabling the feature in config.

Claude 4.7 is the AI equivalent of "New Coke."

The default AI coding workflow is TURBO ADHD.

A hook that nags Claude to commit when it has finished a logical unit of work

Good practices for dealing with Claude 4.7

AI coding agents are bringing back waterfall design, TDD, and CLIs.

Big, scary numbers without context are powering a wave of fear about boring suburban warehouses.

A new approach to AI-powered research that's auditable, flexible, and hallucination-free

Major rewrite of my BuiltWith API wrapper with a new MCP server and CLI

Lessons from building Spotify CLI

An Ongoing Autobiography

Teaching taste, junior developers, and keeping up with AI

A TypeScript CLI tool for scanning directories to detect potential API keys and sensitive information