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I was raised Roman Catholic and religious, but started questioning it near the end of high school…. This is an account of why I changed my mind fifteen years ago.

I’m very fond of the SDLC system I’ve recently built. It offers the high-level ergonomics I’ve always wanted without creating such a complex mental model that inspecting and debugging is difficult. An overview…

The American Project turned 250 years old yesterday. It’s worth spending some time thinking about what it means to you.

“Bubble” is underspecified. Whether AI should be labeled a bubble has raised the salience of the term recently, but it’s a broader issue.

In my junior year of college, I took a microeconomics class…. The prof was saying, basically, that I didn’t understand the assignment.

Early AI adopters spent all of 2023 and 2024 trying stuff and making mistakes before finally figuring out what LLMs are good for. Now that these tools have worked their way down to the normies, I’m seeing new people make the same mistakes all over again. AI is good for a lot of stuff, but it’s no substitute for original thinking and personal communication.

The leak of Claude Code’s source code yesterday provided a lot of opportunities to dunk on the bad code produced by AI agents.

AI agents are making context switching relevant again.

Yesterday, an ICE agent shot Alex Pretti in the streets of Minneapolis….

Over the last few weeks, I’ve become the product leader of a small organization, directing a team of top-notch, highly-independent engineers…. I’m commanding a fleet of Claude Code agents.