AI builds everything as this huge monster of too much, and now I feel like I’m iterating by trimming things back and perfecting it over time. It’s a bit like working from clay, and allowing the software underneath to expose itself in the…
For the last week or so I've had an agent working my task board. It picks up a task, writes the code in an isolated worktree, opens a PR, gets CI green, responds to review feedback, and parks the result somewhere I can test it. Then it…
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just someone who…
It seems like everyone is trying to make predictions right now. The discomfort of not knowing what the future holds is unbearable, and making a prediction (even a terrifying one) feels better than sitting in the ambiguity. When you can…
A former manager of mine recently reached out and asked if I'd come talk to his team about how I use AI in my day-to-day work. I loved this because 1) I was super flattered and 2) I got to prep something super loose and easy. It wasn't a…
Let me be upfront: I'm not a security researcher. I'm a software engineer who, like most of us, thinks about security just enough to not be reckless. But after a year of working with AI agents daily, I've noticed a lot of hand-waving…
I've been trying to write this post for a while now, and I keep putting it off because I don't think I have the right words for what I'm feeling. But I think that's kind of the point. None of us do. We're all just trying to make sense of…
As I've mentioned before, I have pretty mixed feelings on AI. Like many things in life, more than one thing can be true. I'm also going to throw a caveat here up front that most of my examples use GitHub Copilot. I work for GitHub so I…
I spent 2025 going from skeptical to genuinely excited about AI tools. My non-tech friends and family spent 2025 learning to hate them. The AI industry has fumbled this introduction so badly that we've turned a useful set of tools into a…
2025 was my year of doing ALL the things - speaking at 5+ conferences, starting a podcast, shipping side projects, and somehow not completely burning out. I learned that momentum creates more momentum, perfectionism is overrated, and…
I wanted to add book clubs to my GoodReads-like app (Collective), but ATProto doesn't have a standard way to handle shared group resources yet. So I'm building opensocial.community—a separate service that manages groups independently from…
Two weeks away from my day job taught me something important: for the vast majority of my developer career I've been confusing building products with building businesses. That distinction kept me from taking the leap on a lot of ideas,…
I've cracked the code on breaking the eternal cycle - features win, tech debt piles up, codebase becomes 'legacy', and an eventual rewrite. Using coding agents at GitHub, I now merge multiple tech debt PRs weekly while still delivering…
The most frequent question I get is "How do you do so many things?". I do a lot of things outside of working full-time, and I have been asked this question enough that I thought it was time that I actually described why I do so many…
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