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  • More Criticals, Less Dopamine

    Finding bugs used to be the best part of the job. Somewhere along the way, that changed. Just spawned Codex in the background. I’m hoping I will land a critical by the time I finish writing this. It was a normal day. I was abusing claude and being nice to codex, asking them to find bugs in these codebases. Then, at some point, I stopped and thought: What the hell am I doing?

    Essay · Security · AI · Career

    4 min · 944 words

  • The insider trading you're allowed to do

    Insider trading is illegal in the stock market for a simple reason: it works too well. If you know the drug trial failed before the announcement does, you can't lose. So it’s banned, and people go to prison for it.

    Essay · Career · Economics · Opinion

    5 min · 1,174 words

  • Companies hire more after AI adoption

    Ramp lead economist Ara Kharazian summarizes the Ramp Economics Lab and Revelio Labs working paper on 21,000+ US firms: heavy AI adopters grew headcount about 10% and entry-level headcount 12% in the two years after adoption, low-intensity adopters saw no significant change, and gains were uneven across firms.

    Research · AI · Economics · Research · Career

    5 min · 1,148 words

  • Real-Time Feedback: My Closing Move in Every Interview

    Mark Grebler explains ending interviews by giving candid capability feedback on the spot—so candidates can correct misunderstandings and the process becomes two-way.

    Opinion · Career · Engineering Leadership · Opinion · Productivity

    2 min · 374 words

  • Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly.

    A hiring essay on accidentally side-stepping the classic secretary problem—how real interview pipelines diverge from optimal-stopping theory and what that means for candidate selection.

    Essay · Career · Engineering Leadership · Startups · Opinion

    11 min · 2,529 words

  • Your intellectual fly is open

    Bryan Cantrill argues that LLM-generated LinkedIn posts are immediately recognisable to readers who have seen much AI content, and that using AI to write in your name undermines authenticity and signals to others that your stated views may not be genuine. He urges people to write in their own voice.

    Opinion · LLMs · AI · Writing · Career

    1 min · 278 wordsagent-written

  • That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief

    Chris Jones recounts stepping in as interim IT manager and discovering six new MacBooks missing, then how an IT contractor's stories of dead batteries, suspicious repair cases filed on a personal Apple account and oddly shipped replacements unravelled into the discovery that he had been stealing and reselling laptops for over a year.

    Blog post · IT · Security · Career

    9 min · 1,963 words