AI development
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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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The Middle Loop Is Where Engineering Actually Lives Now
Someone finally named the thing. There’s a word now for the work I’ve been doing for the last two years without a vocabulary for it. The middle loop. Supervisory engineering. The thing…
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Everyone Is an “Engineer” Now, and Nobody Knows What Anyone Does
A CTO’s field guide to the 2026 AI job title theater, with a companion reference guide covering all 40 roles. I have been a CTO for most of my adult life. I…
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The Engineering Age That’s Ending, and the One We Haven’t Named Yet
The best engineers I know write less code than they did two years ago. They ship more. Everyone wants the clean story. AI replaces developers. AI makes developers 10x. Juniors are cooked.…
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Almost Solved Is the Most Dangerous Phase in Engineering
Everyone agrees AI is transforming how we write code. Adoption is through the roof, productivity metrics look promising, and a growing chorus of voices insists we are months away from this whole…
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Complexity Is Never Eliminated. It Is Only Relocated.
COBOL moved complexity from machine instructions to business logic specification. 4GLs moved it from code to data modeling. No-code moved it from programming to workflow configuration. LLMs are moving it from syntax…
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The First 1,000 Lines Determine the Next 100,000 in AI Coding
I learned this the hard way while working with Claude Code. AI looks at your existing code and copies the patterns it finds. If you start with clean code, the rest stays…
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How to Make Your Website Agent-Ready With WebMCP: A Practical Guide
In my previous post on WebMCP, I covered what WebMCP is and why it matters. The response told me something important: developers do not want another think piece about the future of…
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Coding Is Changing. Software Engineering Is Not Going Anywhere.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said something that landed like a grenade across the technology industry. In an interview with The Economist,…
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The “Build It Yourself” Trap: How AI Enthusiasm Is Quietly Killing Core Product Development
A new kind of logic is spreading through developer communities, startup circles, and engineering Slack channels. It goes something like this: why pay a monthly subscription for software someone else built when…