I'm a professional software engineer based in the US. This is my first time making a blog; don't expect much consistency in terms of topics or post frequency...
In the last couple weeks, various folks have written about feeling an inflection point using agentic AI for building software. The consensus seems to be that these tools have crossed some threshold into being genuinely game-changing, and maybe there's no turning back. The piece Competence As Tragedy especially got me thinking. It's not long, so I'd recommend reading the whole thing, but this feels…
Instead of a New Year's Resolution, I assign each calendar year a "Yearly Theme". 1 Around the new year, I decided that 2025 shall be the "Year of Weigh Anchor". In a sentence, my goal for this year is: If I'm anxious about something I'm avoiding, I should do that thing as soon as feasible. In fact, I've become aware of some chores I'm procrastinating on by writing this. I will continue once…
Content warning: US politics, mild doomerism I don't know how to engage with US politics in a healthy or productive way right now. In his first weeks in office, Donald Trump is wildly overstepping the jurisdiction of the executive branch, he's invited Elon Musk (along with the techbro lapdogs Elon drags around with him) to root around our nation's institutions with the express goal of destroying…
I've been working as a software engineer for a number of years now, at the same company I joined after graduating as an undergrad. I'm reasonably happy with my current job, but I've been thinking lately about what another role could offer that would pull me away from where I currently am. While I expect some of these would be pretty universal desires, note that this is a snapshot of my own…
Who am I? I'm sure I'll talk more about myself as I write here, but I'm a software engineer based in the US. Why am I making a blog? I've recently been reading a bunch of good writing online , and have felt inspired. I am also a big fan of video essays, and would love to try my hand at that as well someday, but a blog seems like a much more manageable scale, if I'm actually trying to finish…