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In this post, I argue that individual intellectual activity can only be sustained in an intellectual community of other humans. AI dissolves these communities, which in turn makes private intellectual activity rarer.
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust - storytold/photocraft
I haven't had a real job in four years. I closed down a startup I'd been building, just last month. During all these years, I spent most of that time at the back end of the frontier of AI agents. B…
Some design and strategy techniques to protect PII and respect people's desire to opt out of AI.
AI can produce code. Organizations still have to produce software. Agentic development is changing how software gets made, but it hasn’t changed what it costs to be wrong. Six months ago, we began
In general, you should be suspicious of engineers who are trying to give you advice. Even during ordinary times, this industry is so wide and changes so quickly…
Matthew Schwartz describes what happened when he stopped fighting Claude and allowed Claude to find “Claude-shaped” problems. This led him to build BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science, which he has been applying across scientific fields alongside experts.
For decades, empirical research has shown that programming is a demanding cognitive activity: Developers rely on working memory, long-term recall, and complex mental models to manipulate interacting abstractions such as control flow, data structures, and the structural design of software.
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