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6–8 minutesAI Burnout Is Real, and Nobody Wants to Say It Out Loud
Read essay →: AI Burnout Is Real, and Nobody Wants to Say It Out LoudEveryone posts about what AI made faster. Almost nobody talks about the context switching, the pressure to keep up, and what it does to our mental health.
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The $500 Bug Bounty Email Every Small Site Gets
A “security researcher” emailed me about a critical bug on my blog and asked about a bounty. It was username enumeration. Here’s what I fixed and how to spot beg bounties.
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The Rise of Wasteful Resources
We used to be proud of making things small. Now the default is to throw more tokens, more context and more compute at every problem. Why AI waste became normal, what it…
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I Still Miss Writing Code
There is a specific kind of quiet I have been thinking about lately. It is late. The office is empty, or the house is finally asleep. There is a problem on the…
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The Editor Wars Are Over. The Reading Wars Started.
Last Tuesday I opened Neovim at nine and closed it after one. Four hours. I pressed i twice. The rest was j, k, Ctrl-d, /, gd, Ctrl-o, and a lot of sitting…
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Do You Still Read Books?
A developer asked me that on a call in June. Not sarcastically. He asked it the way you would ask someone who still develops film. I had mentioned I picked up the…
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AI Won’t Turn Non-Builders Into Builders
Someone showed me their AI-built SaaS last week. Looked clean. Demo worked. They asked me if they could quit their job. I asked what happens when a user signs up tomorrow and…
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The Gatekeeper Generation
A developer at a fintech client lost three days to a reconciliation job that was silently dropping records under load. He had shipped eleven features in four months. Real output, not demo…
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Fable 5 Is Back. The AI Coding Market Already Moved On.
On June 12, the US government told Anthropic to pull Claude Fable 5. Three days after it launched. The order said no foreign nationals could touch it, including Anthropic’s own foreign employees,…
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The New Burnout Comes From Watching, Not Building
A developer with 20 years on the job told me something last week. His old burnout used to make sense. Eight hours of code. Brain fried. Go home. Sleep. Repeat. Predictable. His…
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