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AI-assisted engineering
AI as an engineering tool: coding agents, AI-authored code, and what programming becomes when models write most of it.
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2026
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articleThe Behavioural Turn in Software Engineering
Moving from assembly to C changed what we read. Coding agents change whether we read. What psychology learned about black boxes, and what it got wrong.
32 min read · 11 chapters
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noteA capability, democratised
Building software took money, a team, or years of training. Now anyone with an idea and a subscription can do it, and nobody predicted what would follow.
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noteIdeas stop waiting
In 2026 the backlog of ideas I carried for years is turning into things that exist. On why this year feels like a window that will not stay open.
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notePower, in the good sense
The right word for what AI gives an individual builder is power, meant as capability rather than domination. It is refreshing to say so.
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noteThe window before the utility
Tokens will be a metered utility and AI as ordinary as electricity. Until then, learning to use it well is an advantage that will not come around again.
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noteOpus 5.5 is the best Opus since 4.5
A month in, Claude Opus 5.5 feels like the next milestone after Opus 4.5: the same jump in what Claude Code can carry, now faster and cheaper per task.
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articleThe Proof You Only Have to Write Once
Generation is cheap, so verification is the bottleneck — and we throw the verification away every time. What if a proof, once written, could be named, shared, and vouched for? A content-addressed commons for verified Haskell, and the move I left for after the semantic-artifact trilogy.
13 min read · 7 chapters
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talkI Stopped Writing Most of My Code
Slide deck for IT's ABOUT TECH #13 in Basel. A 15-minute story about what changed for a long-time engineer after Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Code arrived, and what happens to a backlog of years-old ideas when the bottleneck stops being time.
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articleThe Field Exists Now
Alasdair Allan's agentlanguages.dev catalogue turns AI-oriented programming languages from a loose set of experiments into a field with camps, disagreements, and testable claims.
7 min read · 6 chapters
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articleSource Code Is the New Assembly
Closing the trilogy. The artifact you author is no longer source code. It is a typed, verifiable object that carries meaning. Code becomes a lowering target.
27 min read · 15 chapters
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articleWhat Comes After the Last Programming Language
If AI generates machine code directly, why are we still running operating systems designed for humans? The answer might be an inference-native OS.
23 min read · 9 chapters
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articleWhat Sixteen AI Agents Taught Me About Management
What happens when you give sixteen AI agents an org chart, a reporting structure, and a token budget. A story about orchestration, management, and running out of runway.
19 min read · 11 chapters
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articleThe Last Programming Language Might Not Be for HumansEN中한
Three futures for programming languages as AI becomes the primary author of code, and why I bet on Haskell.
26 min read · 5 chapters
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articleHow I Work These Days
From Kaggle in 2020 to coding agents in late 2025. The shift that changed how I build and why my routine finally feels right.
10 min read · 9 chapters
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articleHow AI Makes Bare Metal Viable Again
I migrated two production apps from Kubernetes to a single Hetzner box. The missing piece was not the hardware.
29 min read · 14 chapters
