Vibe coding is raising the floor, agentic engineering is raising the ceiling.

Great Engineers are Also Artists. “I characterize art as something that is done for its own sake, and done well, and often creates a sense of beauty or some strong emotion. And a lot of engineers are introverts. As an aside, I hate the term “incel.” It’s just a way of putting introverts down. It’s the new “nerd,” if you will. If someone says that somebody is an incel, I’m more likely to want to interview them. So let’s move away from the slurs. But introverts tend to want to express themselves through other things rather than going out and expressing themselves directly. So what are they going to do? They’re going to express themselves through their craft. They’re going to create art. In my current company, at least half the engineers have serious artwork they’ve done on the side. World-class artwork—everything from elegant mathematical proofs to beautiful computer art, to literally sculpting things with clay, designing clothing, designing doorknobs, water bottles. There’s one who’s done incredible music videos, really good stuff. And I see a lot of the better engineers tinker with the AI art products, much more so than even so-called artists do. I think a lot of artists are scared by AI art products saying, “This is going to replace me.” Whereas someone who doesn’t have that identity of an artist and doesn’t feel threatened by it—it’s just a tool and they try it out to see what it can create. Anything done for its own sake and done as well as one possibly can is art. And great engineers are also artists. They’re capable of anything. It’s just they’ve chosen to be engineers and focused on building things because engineering is the ability to turn your ideas and your art into things that actually work, that do something useful, that embody some knowledge in a way that it can be repeated and people can get utility out of it. But that doesn’t mean that it can’t be beautiful.”

In theory everything works. In practice barely anything works. Being a great operator is knowing the difference.

The bar has never been higher and lower at the same time. Higher to cut through the noise. Lower to deliver on quality.

My concerns for attrition in software engineering keeps dropping. Making AI software and dealing with non-deterministic outputs is 10-100x harder than “classic” software.

You can now use Claude Sonnet 4 directly in Xcode! 👏

Sometimes, to move forward, you have to take a step back.

Instead of starting with an idea, start with a moat: 1. Distribution 2. Data 3. Brand If you don’t have one of those, partner.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet delivers.

Exploring UX in Japan: A Glimpse into Everyday Life in Tokyo.

Cool 3D visualization of LLM activations

The thing you’re avoiding right now? That’s your greatest opportunity.

The secret isn't adding awesome – it's removing suck until only greats left.

Everyone obsesses over being first. But markets don't care who’s first. They reward who lasts.

People don't buy products, they buy who they become when using them.

Woah, this is very cool! You can now train reasoning into a model on your laptop.

Build problem lists, not feature lists. While others guess at solutions, you’ll know what’s real.

Markdown is the new RSS. And thanks to LLMs, it’s supported by the entire web.