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A Nobel economist says last year's models were already good enough, and the industry is spending its engineers on the wrong layer.

Airbnb's CEO retired the dumbest AI metric of the year and replaced it with the second dumbest.

OpenAI's president says the best sign AI is working is that nobody can work without it. SREs have another name for that.

The fastest way to speed up a JavaScript tool, it turns out, is to stop writing it in JavaScript.

The secret to delightful software is a boring stack, screens full of raw JSON, and an agency that talks clients out of the fun bits.

Your coding agent iterates in seconds. A rocket iterates when the hard drive gets back from the desert.

Forty minutes on AI adoption that boils down to two prompts and one unsolved problem nobody wants to talk about.

Mustafa Suleyman wants your AI to replace the apps, the browser and the billboard his own company built.

Spanner doesn't break CAP. Google just owns a network good enough to make you forget about it.

Redux won by being small and boring. Then everyone got bored of it.

Docker puts your app in a box. Kubernetes moves the boxes. Everything else is YAML.

Job-hopper or lifer? Wrong question. Count the distinct mistakes.

In 2019 I moved this blog to Jekyll. You're reading it on Astro.

An ancient Greek memory trick, rebranded by the BBC as a superpower.