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Conventional wisdom is that AI coding raises the floor — that it allows mediocre engineers and even non-coders to be more productive.

Johnnie Walker Black Label has a reputation for quality.

This famous XKCD keeps popping into my mind as I watch Claude Code insisting on running stuff like find .

As tensions between Iran, Israel, and the United States escalate, a familiar argument resurfaces in op-eds and think-tank threads: if only the decision-makers had real skin in the game — if generals’ sons were drafted, if politicians stood in the line of…

An exoskeleton is a mechanical frame you wear that amplifies your physical strength.

Economists love to talk about government deficit spending as “borrowing money from the future.”

A long time ago I worked for a Porn company.

Campfire roasted Marshmallow is a childhood classic.

In one scene of the classic “Alice in Wonderland” movie, Alice encountered cards painting rose bushes.

“No” is one of the most important yet underused word in our languages.

When I was a small boy I used to spend hours playing the “war” card game.

In Israel it occasionally happens that someone declares himself “king of the Jews”, “messiah” or even the “reincarnation of Jesus Christ” - it’s quite common and has been dubbed the “Jerusalem Syndrome”.

One of the repeating motifs of recruiting in the software industry are mantras of “talent”: “We recruit the best talent”, “talent attracts talent”, “we value talent” and so on.

One of the things that struck me the most when observing managers at work, and in particular newly instated managers, is how managers become more and more out of touch with the realities of work.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

No, engineers don’t suck at time estimates - and generally speaking humans are better estimators than what most people believe.

Have you ever walked into an office and saw a huge flat screen on the wall displaying a dashboard with pretty graphs, or some other nice visualization showing some important looking numbers?

In a world where anything has an API, everything is a software problem nukemberg My name is Avishai Ish-Shalom, AKA @nukemberg on Twitter.

From meetup groups to job listings to titles on LinkedIn, full-stackers are all around. but for a term so prevalent it is surprisingly ambiguous.

Since I’ve abandoned Facebook my primary source of tech news has become Twitter and this week my feed is raging with two seemingly unrelated security/privacy incidents: Zoom’s zero day and Superhuman’s email tracking scandal.