The collected writing
2026
Ideas, observations and the occasional tangent.
2026
- The latest incarnation of saarthi
- A cave under the house
- Nobody Home: AI Agents and Blindsight
- Living Below the API
- Is Software Engineering a Dead End?
- What Is a Software Engineer Now?
- Rest in Git, Little Buddy
- When AI Agents Go Rogue
- Is Software Engineering Still a Viable Career?
- The Frontier Model Tax
- The Box Might Not Hold
- The Toyota Tundra and Chinese AI
- Collaboration Agents and the Statistical Engine of Mediocrity
- Unlimited Intelligence, More Drudgery
- Apple’s Deliberate AI Strategy
- Dress for the Slide
- Maps and Territories
- Arsenal and the Passage of Time
- The Two Drivers
- Anthropic, xAI and the Inference Moat
- Three Essays About the AI Future
- Running AI in Production
- The Case for an AI Fast
- Scars From Building AI
- When Engineering Stops Saying No
- Where to Invest in AI
- The Doppelgänger
- Path Dependence
- Surviving the Dark Forest
- The Spigot
- On Agents and Harnesses
- Chatbots are driving a generational divide
- The Smiley Face Won
- Exchanging Insight for Output
- Cursor vs. Claude Code on Token Costs
- Why multi-modal embeddings are a big deal.
- Governing AI-Assisted Engineering
- Who Gets to Decide?
- Living With a Personal Agent
- Anthropic, the Pentagon, and the Judgment of Future Claude
- When Your App Becomes a Context Provider
- Context Engineering as Narration
- The Lego Model: How Tool Calling Changes the Way We Build AI Applications
- Building at the Speed of Thought
- What if ASI Leads to Stasis?
- Book Review: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
- A Letter to 2025