Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
6 min read EngineeringPromotion systems in tech reward complexity, not good judgment. Here's why that keeps happening and what you can do about it.
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The AI Paradox: Coding is Easier, Engineering is Harder
3 min read aiWriting code got easy. Knowing what to build didn't.
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Demystifying AI: Learning LLMs Through 200 Lines of MicroGPT
6 min read AILarge Language Models seem like magic, but they are just math. Let's break down Andrej Karpathy's MicroGPT to understand the core mechanics.
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Bell Curve Promotions Are Broken
7 min read careerForced ranking systems pit teammates against each other and reward politics over performance. The math doesn't even work.
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The Skeptic Who Got Benchmaxxed: What Actually Changed About AI Coding Agents
11 min read ai-agentsI used to dismiss AI coding agents as expensive autocomplete. Then Opus 4.5 dropped, and a data scientist started shipping Rust crates that beat numpy. A breakdown of Max Woolf's journey and why the AGENTS.md file might be the most underrated tool in the stack.
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How to lock yourself out of SSH with a single scp command
2 min read linuxOne scp command to copy some files, and suddenly you can't SSH into your own server anymore.
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Compound Engineering
6 min read engineeringMost codebases rot over time. Compound engineering is the idea that every unit of work should make the next one easier, not harder.
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28 Posts in 28 Days: What Happened When I Wrote Every Day in February
4 min read writingI published a blog post every day in February. Some were good, some were filler, and I learned more about my own writing habits than I expected.