Posts for www.seangoedecke.com on Jan 2026

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34 How does AI impact skill formation?

33 You have to know how to drive the car

32 How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

31 I'm addicted to being useful

30 Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers

29 The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence

28 What is "good taste" in software engineering?

27 Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail?

26 How I provide technical clarity to non-technical leaders

25 We are in the "gentleman scientist" era of AI research

24 2025 was an excellent year for this blog

23 Why it takes months to tell if new AI models are good

22 Nobody knows how large software products work

21 Endless AI-generated Wikipedia

20 AI coding agents rely too much on fallbacks

19 Becoming unblockable

18 An unofficial FAQ for Stripe's new "Tempo" blockchain

17 What have we learned about building agentic AI tools?

16 What I learned building an AI-driven spaced repetition app

15 Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

14 Should LLMs just treat text content as an image?

13 You can't design software you don't work on

12 AI is good news for Australian and European software engineers

11 Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews

10 Only three kinds of AI products actually work

9 'Make invalid states unrepresentable' considered harmful

8 Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

7 AI detection tools cannot prove that text is AI-generated

6 Writing for AIs is a good way to reach more humans

5 If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents

4 The whole point of OpenAI's Responses API is to help them hide reasoning traces

3 Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

2 To get better at technical writing, lower your expectations

1 GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me