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- Working with designers
- A database is a store for global variables
- LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights
- Audience capture
- Reliably aligning LLMs is impossible in principle
- Fast and slow ways to improve your reputation
- Elegance and intelligence are anticorrelated
- You can just ask AI to do things
- Getting good at AI takes time and practice
- Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies
- Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages
- Laypeople support technical fields for technology, not art
- What requirements don't you have?
- Writing is no longer proof of work
- AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects
- Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI
- Don't diagnose your opponents
- Software's centaur age may last decades
- How to read code
- Superpersuasion will look like bribery
- Shipping is the foundation
- Do not build the LLM torture factory
- Human-AI partnerships are for alignment, not capability
- Advice to a beginning software engineer
- You should all be asking way more questions
- System One models like Jev can train their own replacements
- Grit your teeth and ship it
- Two techniques for working with System One models
- Jev means structured output is interesting again
- Tell agents the why, not just the how
- Slow developer experience will bottleneck fast models
- AI is breaking our proxies for expertise
- Don't build tools for AI agents
- They really do think AI might kill everyone
- Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents
- Automatically detecting AI text in my browser
- Radical responsibility means treating people like tools
- How to protect yourself from workslop
- You have to beat the models at something
- Selling out
- You should never be angry at work
- Good writing is obvious, not original
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- LLMs reward expertise
- Blog about things you don't understand yet
- Saying the obvious thing
- Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career