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  • Agentic Engineering – Tokens are not enough

    Software Engineering is a wild place now. We’re doing more with less. We build sometimes twice as many features with leaner teams. PM’s write code, Engineers write code, design and do PM work. Everyone is more productive and full stack in some sense of the word. Where we’re at, a lot of us are stretching…

  • Vibe Coding: A Review

    It was the tweet (xeet) that launched a thousand vibes-based projects. Early in February, Andrej Karpathy posted about how good AI-assisted coding had gotten. The interesting thing about this kind of vibe-based coding is that his flow – using SuperWhisper and Cursor means that he is basically interacting with his codebase at a high level.…

  • Neovim – leg day for developers.

    There is a bit of a tempest brewing in the developer community about cursor and AI assisted coding tools. I recently saw a post from a dev that mentioned that they were turning off copilot for their IDE finding that the suggestions were making them overly dependent on the AI model. Reading arguments about this…

  • On Happiness and Embodiment (and Aikido)

    On why you’re not just a “brain in a vat”. There is a difference between understanding a truth and deeply internalizing it. This is why there are so many evident truths to happiness that we understand at a surface level, but end up blithely ignoring in our own lives. I asked Claude.ai for five obvious…