Posts tagged with AI
The Last Two Pixels
I run dozens of bespoke little Mac apps: scratch notepads, screen resolution tuners, and even a mini-dashboard making use of that little bucktoothed notch atop MacBook screens. A simple but critical utility is an alternate app switcher—the default…
How to Write Words Good (with AI)
If you scroll to the bottom of each post on the site, you may notice a curious badge: It's a badge from the Not By AI group, a project that looks to explicitly tag creative content—writing, visual…
Paperclip Capitalism
Back in 2017, the sci-fi author Ted Chiang wrote a prescient article surfacing the fears of AI. This was before the technology had reached its current, supercharged LLM form, before even GPT-1 was trained. He was reflecting on…
The Linguistics of Programming
I think it was the semester's first career fair, during my sophomore year in college. A Microsoft recruiter, screening for computer science majors, pulled me aside and asked me what my "favorite language" was. I panicked,…
Review: The Skill Code
A couple months ago, I went on the CTO Confessions podcast. In one of the segments, we talked about the impending—or already developing—problem of the shrinking talent pipeline. With agentic AI, senior engineers are now expected to manage…
The Changing Management Landscape
This blog's namesake drives my writing process. I first come across a noteworthy book or article, something that triggers a thought or reaction. Then I create a new doc, jot down a few thoughts, and let it sit…
