Thoughts on AI, engineering,
and building companies.

Occasional writing on things I'm working through — not a newsletter, no schedule. Just when something is worth saying.

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Can You Still Recognize Effort?

Someone said my proposal looked "too polished" — they meant AI-generated. I wrote this post with AI too. On the near-impossible problem of telling slop from effort.

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AI Writes 90% of My Code. Here's What That Actually Looks Like.

Four weeks, 90% AI-generated code, a wall of green tests — and a quiet realization that the checkmarks were green because the AI was grading its own homework.

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Are We Eating Our Seed Corn? The Hidden Cost of AI Convenience

Stack Overflow questions are down 75% from peak. The AIs we love were trained on that knowledge — but who's creating the next generation of training data?

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