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On July 16, Hugging Face reported they were being hacked - seriously enough that they reported it to law enforcement. Five days later, OpenAI disclosed that the hacking was being done by their own agent. What I want to know is: what happened to the law en

Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI - down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title. The credential market collapsed; the activity exploded. The problem: nobody's bui

Most technical interviews test the wrong things: memorized syntax, whiteboard coding, brand-name employers. Instead, hire for learning ability, intellectual honesty, clear communication, and basic decency. "Team fit" is bias in disguise. Homogeneity means

DevRel isn't community management or a conference circuit - it's docs, engineering, content, and product feedback, in that order. Measure it with pipeline, shipped features, and attention, plus the one thing that actually matters and can't be quantified:

AI-native startups are doing more with less - 40% smaller teams, 6x higher revenue per employee - and the data confirms it's not just hype. But the wave of new jobs I predicted hasn't materialized so far. Compute is replacing labor. Will that change?

My bet for 2026: companies chasing margins and hitting diminishing returns on frontier models will shift to fine-tuning small, domain-specific models. Fine-tuning is getting cheaper, open-weights models are catching up to frontier ones, and differentiatio

AI won't kill programming jobs or leave them untouched. It's a new abstraction layer, like every one before it, that will create vastly more developers building vastly more software. Existing programmers keep their jobs; a long tail of cheaper new roles u

I scaled back my ambitions from "how to write AI apps" to what I've actually learned. Key lessons: LLMs excel at condensing text, not creating it. Give them the data they need rather than relying on training. Let them self-correct. Use regular code wherev

I explain how databases actually work: what a DBMS is, why relational databases use tables, why NoSQL became a marketing term for mostly-in-memory stores, how your app connects to a database, and how replication and network topology affect consistency ver

I've been saying for years that there are no fundamentals of web development, and people keep pushing back. My argument is simple: "fundamental" means necessary, and no single skill, not HTML, not CSS, not JavaScript, is necessary to get a web page into t