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The good times in tech are over
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For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were almost unheard of…
on Mar 16
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer
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What I use them for and what I don't
on Feb 24
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To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't
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What LLM's can't do yet
on Feb 15
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Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies
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Some people will absorb as much work as you're willing to give them
on Feb 13
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Engineers who won’t commit force bad decisions
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Why remaining non-commital is cowardly
on Feb 13
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Good engineers are right, a lot
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It's an iffy Amazon leadership principle but a great engineering metric
on Feb 6
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Why AI labs offer so many different models
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A taxonomy of base models, distilled models, and reasoning models
on Feb 4
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Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?
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A general theory of human/human and human/LLM interaction
on Feb 2
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Are DeepSeek's new models really that fast and cheap?
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People are too confident that DeepSeek V3/R1 are 10x cheaper than 4o/o1
on Jan 31
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Playing politics is how senior engineers protect their team
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If you're senior or above, you're morally obliged to play the game
on Jan 28
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What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning with DeepSeek-R1?
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RL-based reasoning instead of SFT on millions of traces
on Jan 27
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How I deal with being way more productive on some days than others
on Jan 25
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Why are big tech companies so slow?
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It's not incompetence or process, it's thousands of feature interactions
on Jan 24
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Thinking clearly about software
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To think clearly, think in slow motion
on Jan 18
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Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
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Tech companies care about projects, not tickets
on Jan 14
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Writing a tech blog people want to read
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What I think about when I write blog posts
on Jan 13
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Is it cynical to do what your manager wants?
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Cynicism and optimism in software companies
on Jan 12
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What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
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My experience working across timezones for Americans
on Jan 12
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What makes strong engineers strong?
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Self-belief, pragmatism, speed, and technical ability
on Jan 8
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Is it cynical to do what your manager wants?
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Cynicism and optimism in software companies
on Jan 8
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Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies
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Why you can't skip to the top (but you can skip to the bottom)
on Jan 5
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Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
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What I've learned from ten years working on projects like this
on Jan 2
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Why companies don't reward glue work and why you shouldn't do it all the time
on Jan 1
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How I got promoted to staff engineer twice
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What does it take to get promoted from senior to staff at a tech company?
on Dec 29
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What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?
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Engineering talent is about task-capability, not speed or volume
on Dec 27
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Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work
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Thoughts on building and maintaining trust with very senior managers
on Dec 22
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters
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Four archetypes in software engineering
on Dec 10
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How I ship projects at big tech companies
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What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project
on Dec 3
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters
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Four archetypes in software engineering
on Dec 3
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I don't know how to build software and you don't either
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Overconfidence about the big questions in software engineering
on Dec 1
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How I ship projects at big tech companies
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What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project
on Nov 13
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Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml
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Summarizing a whole lot of internet argument about the water usage impact of language models
on Oct 28
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From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls
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How to use modern machine learning tools to recognise animal calls
on Apr 28