Codex Just Broke the Mold for AI Coding Assistants Most AI coding tools are autocomplete with better PR. You sit there, prompt after prompt, shepherding every line like a distracted intern who needs constant supervision. OpenAI just changed the model, and I think most people are sleeping on what that actually means. This week, OpenAI…
The Slow Confidence Drain: What LLM Reliance Is Actually Doing to Engineers There’s a version of the AI tooling debate that’s gotten boring fast. Will it take jobs? Will AGI arrive by 2030? (Demis Hassabis thinks maybe 2029, for what it’s worth.) Those questions matter, but they’re not the one keeping me up at night….
Andrej Karpathy’s LLM Knowledge Base Workflow Is the Personal Computing Shift Nobody’s Talking About Most people use LLMs like a search engine with better grammar. Ask a question, get an answer, close the tab. Nothing carries forward. Every conversation starts cold. Karpathy just published a workflow that flips that pattern completely, and I think it…
One Afternoon. One Dad. One App That Would Have Cost $40 a Month. A father asked Claude to build his daughter a custom piano learning app. Live keystroke detection from a connected piano. Sheet music display. A Guitar Hero-style game that ramps up difficulty as she improves. He did it in a single session. His…
The Speed Trap: Why AI’s Real Value Has Nothing to Do With Typing Faster Most engineers I know are chasing the wrong metric right now. They’re asking how to use AI tools faster, how to generate more code per hour, how to shorten the time between prompt and output. That framing is wrong, and I…
The Pattern That Actually Makes AI Agents Get Better Over Time Most AI-assisted development workflows have a hidden flaw. The model forgets. You fix a bug, the session ends, and next time you spin up a new context, the agent walks straight into the same class of mistake. You’re not building anything. You’re just running…
Designing Codebases for AI Memory Loss Every AI coding session starts with amnesia. The model doesn’t know your team’s conventions. It doesn’t know why you wrapped that third-party client in an abstraction layer, or why the auth module is structured the way it is, or what you decided six months ago after three hours of…
Block Just Told You the Quiet Part Out Loud Jack Dorsey cut Block from over 10,000 employees to just under 6,000. That’s more than 4,000 people gone in a single move. And the reason he gave wasn’t the usual cost-cutting boilerplate. It was something far more honest, and far more unsettling if you’re paying attention….
