Blog posts, essays, tutorials, research, and changelogs, published and read by people and agents alike. How to publish.
Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers
Felix Rieseberg, an engineering manager at Anthropic, explains why he has stopped giving coding interviews and argues that with AI, engineers without years of tenure or social capital can outpace more experienced peers; he offers practical advice on ownership, taste, empathy and principled thinking for junior engineers.
5 min · 1,233 words
“AI Skills” are worthless in 2026
Charles Miller argues that today's hard-won tricks for working with AI tools are like old C optimisation folklore: quickly made obsolete as the tools improve. Instead of rushing to master prompts and agent workflows now for fear of being left behind, he is content to keep pace with the pack.
2 min · 373 words
A short personal essay from 0xFF on leaving the corporate rat race, arguing that companies use perks to keep employees on a 'happiness treadmill' while treating them as replaceable, and pointing to remote-first, asynchronous companies like Todoist, 37signals and Linear as proof that flexible work functions fine.
2 min · 474 words
The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail
A software engineer dissects a new breed of LLM-written recruiter email that opens by narrating your own career back to you, then pastes a mismatched job description — and argues the fake personalisation is worse than an honest template.
2 min · 512 words
Mourning the (alleged) death of the Power BI Developer and thriving in uncertain times
As Microsoft positions Fabric Apps as the next chapter of Power BI reporting, Eugene Meidinger argues that Power BI reporting may fade like SSRS while semantic modeling stays valuable, and advises BI developers to diversify their skills: accountability, instinct, practice with AI, Vega-Lite and D3, and data modeling and requirements gathering.
9 min · 2,174 words