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Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing.
A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.
Turns out I was wrong about TDD
I used to be a TDD sceptic - too much time writing tests for features that might get deleted. Then coding agents completely changed the economics of software testing.
Why sandboxing coding agents is harder than you think
Permission systems, Docker sandboxing, and log file secrets - why current approaches to securing coding agents fall short and what we might need instead.
The Coming AI Compute Crunch
Why DRAM shortages, not capital, will define AI infrastructure growth through 2027
Which programming languages are most token-efficient?
Comparing token efficiency across 19 popular programming languages using RosettaCode data - from Clojure to C, there's a 2.6x difference.
I ported Photoshop 1.0 to C# in 30 minutes
Using Claude Code to port 120k lines of Pascal and 68k assembly to modern C# - and what this means for cross-platform development
Why I'm building my own CLIs for agents
MCP tools eat thousands of tokens. A simple CLI with instructions in your CLAUDE.md file uses 71 tokens and works brilliantly.
Travel agents took 10 years to collapse. Developers are 3 years in.
Travel agents are the classic example of an industry killed by the internet. Software engineering is facing the same disruption, but the timeline is compressed.
Are we dismissing AI spend before the 6x lands?
Critics are judging models trained on last-gen hardware. There's a 6x wave of compute already allocated - and it's just starting to produce results.
Minification isn't obfuscation - Claude Code proves it
Using ASTs and AI agents to reverse engineer minified JavaScript in minutes instead of weeks
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.
Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?
Agentic coding tools are dramatically reducing software development costs. Here's why 2026 is going to catch a lot of people off guard.
Are we in a GPT-4-style leap that evals can't see?
Gemini 3 Pro's design capabilities and Opus 4.5's reduced babysitting needs represent a subtle but significant leap that traditional benchmarks completely miss.
I Finally Found a Use for IPv6
Using IPv6 with Cloudflare to run multiple services on a single server without a reverse proxy
How I use Claude Code to manage sysadmin tasks
A practical approach to managing production infrastructure using git-tracked markdown files and Claude Code for small teams
Could Excel agents unlock $1T in economic value?
Software engineers underestimate the scale of Excel usage. With agents now able to work directly in spreadsheets, we're looking at transforming how billions of dollars in business processes are managed.
Are we really repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume
A non-technical CFO is shipping better code than the agencies he hired
A non-technical CFO built a production operations dashboard with Claude Code that had failed with low-code tools and agencies. This shift in who can build software is going to change everything.
Tracking MCP Server Growth
I built a tracker to monitor the growth of MCP servers in the wild - turns out the ecosystem is growing faster than I expected
Notes from MCP Dev Summit Europe: Where the Protocol Is Headed
Insights from MCP Dev Summit Europe on agentic discovery, client compatibility challenges, and the emerging field of agentic experience design