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Blog Category Archive About Subscribe About Me My name is Mark Downie, I have spent over 20 years engineering solutions for customers. I worked as a technical lead in the field of software engineering and development, with expertise in financial services, healthcare and manufacturing industries.
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The Tool Is Not the Author
On July 19, 2026, Levent Alpöge posted a tweet with a few lines of polynomial that closed an 87-year-old question in mathematics. The coverage that followed put the LLM at the center. That is putting the cart before the horse. Alpöge was a Harvard undergr
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The Knowledge You Give Away
Reverse Information Paradox by Satya Nadella: … In the AI age, the buyer risks giving away knowledge, just in order to use what they bought. You essentially pay for intelligence twice, once with money, and again with something even more valuable: the prop
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Theme colors, shipped
Some time ago I wrote A Kind of Blue to explain why the Blue theme did not survive the Fluent refresh in Visual Studio. The short version was that Blue did not meet our accessibility standards, and the new tinted themes were designed around three pillars:
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AI Splits the Market
Most predictions about the AI era assume one outcome across the whole software industry. Startups will eat incumbents. Greenfield will replace brownfield. Faster building means faster disruption. I don't think any of that is true uniformly. The same techn
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The agent always cost this much
GitHub moved Copilot from Premium Request Units to AI Credits this week, and developers on Reddit were reporting within hours that a single Claude Sonnet prompt had burned half a month of credits, and that a $100 Max plan could be exhausted inside a day.
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