Posts tagged with AI
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…
A Wild Ghost Blog Appears
There would be 15 years' worth of posts to migrate. This was something that I had mulled over for the last few years. WordPress (WP), the blogging-cum-content platform that was initially released in 2003, has gotten too…
Eccentric Founders
Despite changing its corporate structure and name to Block, and even though it's been over a decade since I last worked there, I will always think of the company as Square. Those were formative years. For me, Square…
Gawking at the AI Zoo
Recently, Moltbook made the rounds in tech circles for experimenting with agentic AI societies. It's a social network populated by AI agents, built as an experiment to see how autonomous agents interact and what types of unusual behaviors…
