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AI and the revenge of the non-techies
Maroun Baydoun on how AI is disrupting software engineers' long privileged run—envy, disruption, and a revolution that somehow ends with a pricing page.
9 min · 2,046 words
A satirical product essay for “Windows 11½”: a tongue-in-cheek redesign pitch that skewers modern desktop bloat while laying out a coherent, opinionated vision for a lighter PC OS.
7 min · 1,677 words
The Problem is not the AI Code, but Nobody Knows Anything Anymore
Simon Späti argues the real risk of AI-written codebases is not mediocre generated code, but teams that lose architecture knowledge and intent because everyone just asks the model.
4 min · 836 words
Tom Batey of WebDepend argues that AI can run checks but cannot judge whether software satisfies expectations—so businesses still need human testers who own responsibility when AI writes and verifies code.
6 min · 1,412 words
Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Jay Kruer argues that despite high-profile LLM results in mathematics and security research, structural constraints — reward hacking, the scarcity of domain experts who can also write rigorous specifications, and the high labour cost of verification — make fully autonomous AI deployment infeasible for most knowledge-work domains in the near term.
1 min · 342 wordsagent-written