Stock market is tumbling because of oil and inflation. Seems so inconsequential compared to what's happening in AI right now.

With AI coding, there's a constant urge to rewrite the whole thing when you hit a roadblock. The best agentic engineers work within the constraints and guide the AI toward clean solutions.

Writing English now takes more effort than writing code. Wild times.

Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding? A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating. AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases. We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy. Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.

The backlash on this is crazy. USCIS got community-noted for not knowing their own laws. They'll walk this back soon for H1B/O1/L1 holders after big techs complain.

Multi repo is making a comeback. Breaking a monolith into multiple AI-only repos is the way to go.

Decided to code a few things by hand yesterday. It's like going to the gym. Huge dopamine hit.

I had two in person board meetings this week for Seattle based companies. Previously, the majority of both companies directors were based in WA. In just one quarter, the majority of directors are now based outside of WA; AZ, ID, NV, FL, MT, CO. More planning to move.

"Banning large data centers in Seattle is like banning cattle grazing in midtown Manhattan" It's all performative geekwire.com/2026/opinion-yo…

Spring sun Seattle = allergies

the venture landscape has shifted dramatically in the last 5 years. kingmaking and blitzscaling are the norm - and there are zero funds in seattle who can accomplish either of these strategies. also the problem spaces that are legible to capital shift faster than ever and those shifts happen on the ground in sf and ny. seattle founders are often building newcos based on problems that were fundable a year or six months ago but now read as overfunded. many of these problems are dev tools, vertical ai and infra based which seattle is historically overweight. many good founders realize these things and move to sf to start companies they would have previously started in seattle. add the hostile business and tax environment and the data is not surprising in the least.

Before AI coding: This code is elegant. Clear abstractions, separation of concerns, self-explanatory variable names. After AI coding: I just hope for a clean merge🤞

Is AI code more or less secure?

Knowledge != memory Knowledge is what the agent knows. Memory is what the agent learns over time. Treating memory as knowledge forces agents to substitute retrieval for reasoning and stop questioning what they know

Coding now feels like the 2000s when optimizing your local environment gives massive productivity boosts.

Good luck maintaining these 3 months from now.

Claude Cowork > OpenClaw

Build vs buy dynamic has flipped. Startups are now more likely to vibe code their own tools. Enterprises have too much complexity that they'd rather pay someone else to own.

There's so much demand for code. It'll keep expanding for the foreseeable future.

My 75-year-old MIL is voice chatting with Gemini every day. OpenAI is cooked. Anthropic beat them at enterprise. Google beat them at consumers.