Featured post what's this? ✨ The Post-COVID Decline in the Labor Share - Liberty Street Economics A look at the decline of the labor share of income that occurred post-COVID, comparing its dynamics to declines in earlier periods.
Open source game engine Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions: 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it' At risk of drowning in AI slop code, Godot is firming up its contribution requirements.
NEW STUDY: Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Completely Eradicates 100% of Tumors After a Single Dose in Mice A single intravenous dose of Ewingella americana achieved complete tumor elimination in 100% of treated animals, with no detectable toxicity—outperforming chemotherapy and immunotherapy.
Why I Stopped Arguing With People I am a software engineer, and I used to enjoy arguing with people for technical correctness. Code reviews, design meetings, mailing-list threads, dinner tables. If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I colle...
I ported Kubernetes to the browser | ngrok blog Almost 100,000 lines of LLM-generated code in 2 months, and none of it is slop.
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Odd gestures in public Apple’s watch fulfilled the prophecy made by Brazilian pop duo Claudinho e Buchecha back in 1998 — and suddenly, I could control my calendar — and many other things — without using my hands.
Bringing Claude Code Into Neovim I live in two places: a terminal running Claude Code and Neovim. For months I bounced between them. Edit in Neovim, alt-tab to the terminal, paste a file path, ask Claude something, alt-tab back, apply the change by hand. The friction was small but consta...
A Deadline Is a Constraint, Not a Threat A deadline becomes a threat when date, scope, and quality are all fixed at once but a useful constraint when it forces a team to decide what must be true first. This post is about why even autonomous teams get stuck, what separates the "smallest coherent ...
Your Prime Is Not Youth, Money, or Status. It Is Something More Human Your Prime Is Not Youth, Money, or Status. It Is Something More Human
I like Claude Desktop, so I created my own Building my own Claude Desktop with Tauri, GLM-5.2, the Claude Agent SDK, and Apple container machines
Clean Architecture protects the happy zone | Christian Rackerseder Clean Architecture is not only about drawing onions or creating folders. It is about protecting pure application logic from the messy outside world.
Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business The urge to rewrite working code usually serves the engineer, not the business. A test for when a rewrite is worth it, and what AI does and doesn't change.
Grief, Growth, and my Future as a Programmer As AI transforms software development, this is my honest account of moving from fear and resistance to adaptation and the mindset shifts I’m making to stay relevant and fulfilled.
stop asking writers about "AI" Every time I tell someone new that I’m a writer, they pause for a moment, then ask the same question: “So, what do you think about AI?” This question has been sapping my motivation to write for years.
There is no 'middle' between working and owning Do you see yourself as a worker? In this article, a tech worker pierces through the myth of the ‘middle class’.
localhost is disappearing Why localhost is becoming the wrong default for agentic software development.
Claude Science beta | Claude by Anthropic Claude Science is your AI workbench for scientific research. Works through your research like a skilled scientist, running the analysis and tracing every step. Spend less time stitching pipelines together, and more time on the science.