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Happy July 4th! For those of us around the world contemplatingindependence, it's a good day to think about how we came to rely onexpensiv...

Happy July 4th! For those of us around the world contemplating independence, it's a good day to think about how we came to rely on expensive cloud infrastructure for our fundamental computing needs. With that in mind, here is my latest toy project: an ope

In recent months I've heard of several teams with an interesting policy:each pull request should be no more than a few files, and no more t...

In recent months I've heard of several teams with an interesting policy: each pull request should be no more than a few files, and no more than a certain number of lines (say 500). And do just one thing and do it well. And be easy for a human to review. A

AI isn't killing engineering. It's making it less meditative. There's a lot of talk about AI killing engineering jobs. Some jobs will change, and some will disappear. But we've been automating engineering work for decades, and somehow we keep finding more

A long time ago someone sent me an article, maybe it was from Harvard Business Review, that talked about the four things that might motivate...

AI is the cause of, and solution to, slop problems. Have AIs filter your PRs so humans get back to deciding what they want to exist. AI was built on open source. Now it's starting to return the favour: finding bugs, writing fixes, and optimizing code fast

AI needs an open 'Android' to balance the vertically locked-in 'iPhone' of trillion-dollar AI companies. Open-source AI is closing the gap with closed systems faster than many people expected. That changes the economics, the security model, and the assump

AI is the universal translator that finally connects all your tools... into a hairball. Most companies don't have a tool shortage. They have too many tools, too many handoffs, and too many places where context gets lost. I joined a panel at Web Summit to

A bit over 3 years ago, after working for many years at a series of startups(most of which I co-founded), I disappeared through a Certain V...