My Thoughts on AI in June of 2026

I want to clarify my take on AI for myself and others, so here we are.

If you don’t want to read another article about AI (and who could blame you?), here’s the TL;DR: I think AI makes the average dev maybe 5-20% more efficient when used intelligently. …

API Design that works in Practice

These are going to be my notes on Casey Muratori’s talk on design and evaluation of reusable components YouTube video here

Quick disclaimer first.

DISCLAIMER: My notes on a 50-minute lecture are going to be worse in every single way than just going and …

Package Managers, a Reflection

First, a few disclaimers.

I’m about to make some very specific claims. These specific claims apply to some kinds of software. If you’re not writing this kind of software, it does NOT apply to you.

If you’re writing MVP startup software where you …