Layoffs

To downsize, or not to downsize? That is the question, apparently. See, my theory is that this is because tasers are real, and Coinbase is not. Real things — workers required. Pretend things? Sure, agents. Do everything with agents. Or don’t! Who cares?

The Journey

Struggling to make software work is a really specific type of experience, and you either get that mental place or you don’t. As an objectively poor developer, I avoid writing code whenever possible, which is why I spend a lot of time using stuff like Bubble. But I’m not vibe-coding — every time my application […]

Major Scale

One thing I think a LOT of smart people misunderstand is that the power of computers is always SCALE. Computers are very fast, don’t get tired, and they have no shame. If you are smart, you can point those characteristics in useful directions — and people have been doing exactly that for decades. Large language […]

“Am I so out of touch?”

Some time around my freshman year of college, my Dad’s company gave him a phone with Windows CE on it. It quickly became a running joke in my house, because the phone was both kind of incredible, and the dumbest thing in the world. Dad hated it, surely in part because he didn’t like the […]

Accountablli-Buddy

My Theory of Productivity Allow me a theory. I probably didn’t invent this, but if I did, bully for me. Work output, when increased beyond the amount of available accountability, without a matching increase the available accountability, will never generate a lasting increase in productivity. Here’s what I mean by all these terms. Work output […]

Real-World Vibe Coding

It’s been a couple years since I took my first look at generative AI and concluded that the most likely use case for this kind of technology, by far, was “better” spam. Since then, despite all the activity, investment, discussion, and model releases, nothing has really fundamentally changed my mind about that. While image generation […]