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Updated July 1, 2026

Outgrow Your Taste, Don't Defend It

Building a software solution is three distinct activities: understanding a reality, engineering a general machine, and encoding one into the other. Taste is required by none of them, which is exactly why ego hides there.

Published June 10, 2026

Make Feedback Loops Attribute, Don't Just Detect

Why feedback loops become more powerful when code makes its system concepts explicit.

16 min read

Published May 21, 2026

How AI Is Changing Our Relationship to Work in Software Engineering

On the excitement of AI-assisted coding, the disappearance of friction, and the need to learn how to tame our new tools.

6 min read

Published May 5, 2026

Encode, Don't Imply

Why the implicit becomes fragile when humans and agents co-produce code.

Published April 21, 2026

Build Systems, Don't Polish Prose

We still talk about code as if it were style. But code runs in the world.