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Engineering is Still Real
Interpreting the inevitable AI uprising in my career has always been fascinating to me. How we can go from debugging lines to hand waving at fleets of agents is, mind-boggling to me. My job looks nothing like it did just two years ago. We’re at the point now where we’re not even required to test… — read more
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The Screwdriver and the Drill
When I first got out of college, I moved into a one-bedroom in Manhattan, quickly realizing furniture is an essential component to a decent living space. So, I turned to IKEA because I didn’t want to spend too much money, I said on 5th Avenue. When the parts arrived, I took out my trusty screwdriver… — read more
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A New Leaf
I left Microsoft a few weeks ago. I said goodbye to big tech, goodbye to a cushy salary. I thought I was set for life, but the day-to-day has only shown me how important it is to have agency and how important it is for product design, especially, to be good. The world’s changing fast.… — read more
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The Modern Engineer
Despite all of my doom casting on the future of AI, surely there’s a sliver of hope, no? After all, the stock market hasn’t completely crumbled. People are still making cool things. I’m making cool things still. Perhaps there is a way to incorporate AI into our work properly. Perhaps the definition of a good… — read more
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Thinking Will Become Optional
Perhaps the most dystopian thing I’ve written so far. I can’t help but wonder about our future as human beings. AI and software engineering has surpassed doing tasks at a linear level. Claude Opus 4.8 makes context-level mistakes. It doesn’t understand where it’s at sometimes. You legitimately do need to guide it to get where… — read more
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Microsoft Scout
The final piece clicked in recently. I get all the cool shiny things at Microsoft, so I requested and got access to Microsoft Scout, Microsoft’s experimental OpenClaw fork that hooks up with all the Microsoft things (ie, everything at my job). So now, instead of Claude Code prompts, my prompts to this are: Here’s the… — read more
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We might be doomed – Fable 5
sigh. I wish it would take them longer to make these models. Claude Fable 5 is, amazing. Not only can it one-shot smaller features, but larger, multi-faceted implementations. Claude Opus 4.8 was already good – Fable 5 is just better and faster. The context is what I think is the key. The most critical part… — read more
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The Airplane
My dad asked me an interesting question the other day, “Why does it seem like the younger generation is against AI?” For me, the answer was relatively obvious – creative endeavors and liberal arts-adjacent professions have quite the sub-optimized AI suite. For starters, these aren’t really fields that can be optimized. You can’t optimally paint… — read more
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Novelty is a Superpower
Imagine a world without the word “new”. Imagine a world where you didn’t have to buy a new phone every couple years, you could just use the same piece of glass until you died. Imagine there’s never anything to upgrade, to try, to experience anew – just relived experiences until you get put in the… — read more
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The AI Trap
I fell into AI psychosis for the past few months. It’s incredibly weird to say a sentence like that, but I believe it’s the only accurate indicator for what has actually been going on psychologically in my mind recently. Let’s start with a few facts before I dive in. I am a software engineer at… — read more
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