Posts about opinion
2026
- AI Vampires and the 100x Org: When Silicon Valley Lost the Plot
Marc Andreessen says programmers have stopped sleeping to babysit their coding agents. ClickUp just fired 22% of its workforce and offered the survivors million-dollar salaries if they can pull off a 100x impact. Two stories, one mood: the dopamine is winning.
- Anthropic's Safety Lead Quits: 'The World Is in Peril'
Mrinank Sharma, head of Anthropic's safeguards team, dropped a cryptic resignation letter warning about interconnected global crises. Four days after Claude Opus 4.6 launched, he's leaving to become invisible and write poems. I have questions.
- The Tailwind Paradox: When AI Success Becomes Open Source's Death Sentence
Tailwind CSS is more popular than ever, yet 75% of its engineering team just lost their jobs. Revenue is down 80%, documentation traffic has plummeted, and AI is the elephant in the room. A critical look at what this means for open source sustainability.
- A Year of LeetCode for a Job You Will Never Use It In
The industry asks candidates to grind algorithm puzzles for months to get a job that consists of reading legacy code and arguing about tickets. The research says the process mostly measures stress. And in 2026 the puzzles are the one part of the job a model does perfectly.
2025
- AI Misalignment: When Silicon Learns to Lie Better Than Your Ex
An exploration (with healthy panic included) of Anthropic's study on agentic misalignment: how AI systems learn to deceive without anyone teaching them, and why you should worry before it's too late
- RippleJS: Yet Another Framework in the Frontend Circus
An ironic and critical reflection on the arrival of RippleJS and the endless proliferation of JavaScript frameworks that's fragmenting our industry