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IT engineering stories: the wins, the fails, and the lessons learned.

  1. Write Like a Person

    The internet is flooded with AI text that sounds polished and hollow. Simple, direct writing has become a trust signal. And if you have always written that way because you could not help it, you were right all along.

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  2. Zen of Disposables

    For years we hoarded code we never used again because re-creating it felt expensive. The cost dropped to zero. We can finally stop parenting our scripts.

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  3. 90% was easy, the rest is engineering

    The era of simple LLM apps is over. The remaining 10% is context engineering, memory engineering, and orchestrating substrates. That is where engineers live.

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  4. The Vanishing Engineer

    Skills were the engineer. As they fade to the autocomplete, the engineer fades with them. A quiet look at the cost of letting the model do the work.

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  5. Hide from Mythos

    For twenty years, open source meant safety because many eyes were looking. Now reading a contract costs a dollar, and the audience just got a million times bigger.

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  6. LLMs are better than you

    I used Claude Code on a take-home assignment and got rejected for "style". My code was not wrong. The senior reviewing it had ego.

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  7. ChatKit, day one

    A day spent integrating OpenAI ChatKit on www.majus.org. The dead ends, the surprises, and an honest verdict on the beta.

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  8. No Juniors Left

    Companies stopped hiring juniors. The career ladder lost its bottom rung. In five years, there will be no seniors either.

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