AI

9/18/26

• https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwash-an-executive-today/

8/24/26

I have a bunch of links open that I read a while back and didn’t take notes on. I want to close them out, so I’m just going to dump them here without notes.

• https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html
• https://hbr.org/2026/08/how-much-time-do-your-employees-spend-botsitting
• https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/spend-more-time-talking-to-humans
• https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html
• https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/
• https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing
• https://declaude.org/watermarking/
• https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/11/economist-ai-writing

8/14/26

• I didn’t realize what kind of threat “you’ll be replaced by someone who uses AI” was
• Tabs, Spaces, Hand tools, and Seat belts

7/20/26

• Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
• The Tower Keeps Rising
• The Coming Loop

5/19/26

• AI writes terrible tests

5/18/26

• AI tools seem to help with exploring messy codebases

4/29/26

• On AI “does not work” comments

4/24/26

• Do I belong in tech anymore?

4/14/26

• The Perils of Laziness Lost

3/26/26

• There will not be One Universal Interface

3/24/26

• Programming as Theory Building
• Generative AI as compilers doesn’t make sense to me
• I think prompting LLMs short circuits my thinking

3/12/26

• The way LLMs talk drain me emotionally

3/6/26

• microgpt

3/4/36

• I think AI has uses

3/2/26

• If you want to convince me your AI tools are productive, stop comparing them to junior engineers

2/24/26

• Becoming an em dash user
• It is easy to fall into a bad consumptive mindset when working with AIs

2/19/26

• AI generated code seems to be over wrought

2/18/26

• You shouldn’t have your AI write your test cases

2/17/26

• AI tools can help with cold starts

2/16/26

• The Bullshit Machines
• The first-step fallacy

2/14/26

• AI skepticism as a software developer in 2026
• Generative AI as compilers doesn’t make sense to me

2/10/26

• Programming as Theory Building

2/7/26

• Generative AI as compilers doesn’t make sense to me
• Don’t tell me how many lines of code your LLM wrote

2/2/26

• Is Tidy First antithetical to AI driven development?

1/19/26

• AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

1/12/26

• You cannot use AI to disprove the existence of an API capability

1/4/26

• Brandolini’s Law

1/3/26

• LLMentalist
• Hallucinations
• AI summaries are almost certainly unreliable
• ChatGPT Survey - Performance on NLP datasets
• Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea
• No Silver Bullet

10/18/25

• https://hojberg.xyz/the-programmer-identity-crisis/

10/14/25

• A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

10/13/25

• No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
• AI Coding Sucks

9/29/25

• How do I use AI in software development?

9/27/25

I should make a text expansion for use with AI prompts like ChatGPT:

• do not speculate if you do not know. keep answers concise. don’t use platitudes. don’t pretend to be a person.

9/12/25

• The CoPilot productivity paradox
• Thoughts on AI and AI-veganism
• Book recommended to me from somewhere…
  • Why we fear AI - On the Interpretation of Nightmares
• Where’s the shovelware?

9/10/25

• Implausible AI

9/5/25

• AI Killed My Job - Tech workers

9/1/25

• LLMs are Slot Machines
• The Futzing Fraction
• AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot
• Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code

8/26/25

• How ChatGPT Surprised Me
  • AI as Normal Technology
  • AI 2027

8/24/25

• Good Vibes - A Claude-Code Case-Study

8/21/25

• Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
• AI is a Money Trap
• The Rot Economy