Essays on AI, engineering and Rails
Honest takes on code, AI, and what actually works
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6–10 minutesI Still Miss Writing Code
Read essay →: I Still Miss Writing CodeThere 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 screen that refuses to be solved, and for…
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ADD: AI-Driven Development as a Methodology for the Future Engineer
Software development has always evolved through methodologies that structure how we think about building systems. Waterfall gave way to Agile. Test-Driven Development changed how we approach correctness. Behavior-Driven Development shifted focus toward…
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The Future Engineer: What Software Development Looks Like When AI Handles the Code
The software industry has entered a period of genuine transformation. After decades of incremental tooling improvements, AI-assisted development is introducing changes that feel qualitatively different from what came before. Code completion, automated…
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Code Is for Humans, Not Machines: Why AI Will Not Make Syntax Obsolete
With AI, “everybody is a programmer.” You do not need to learn syntax anymore. Just describe what you want, and the machine will write the code for you. If you have spent…
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The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
When I look back at the history of software, one pattern emerges with remarkable consistency: the promise to simplify software creation, to make it cheaper, and ultimately to eliminate the need for…
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AI-Powered Fixed-Cost Development: A New Model for Agencies
Software development has always carried an uncomfortable truth: nobody really knows how long it will take. Clients want certainty. They want a number, a deadline, a budget they can plan around. Agencies…
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The AI Orchestration Developer: Why Team Leaders Will Define the Next Era
There is a particular kind of developer who has spent years doing something that most of the industry undervalues: building people, not just systems. They review code not to gatekeep, but to…
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Why Ruby Might Be the Most AI-Friendly Language Nobody’s Talking About
A few weeks ago, Martin Alderson published something that caught my attention: a systematic comparison of how token-efficient different programming languages are when fed to large language models. The findings were fascinating.…
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How AI Saved $2 Million in a Single Day; And It Wasn’t Vibe Coding
I recently came across a story that perfectly encapsulates something I’ve been thinking about for months. It’s about a CPO who was handed an unlimited token budget and told to vibe code…
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