My deep research use cases

Deep research is underappreciated. The feature exists in all three LLM chat apps I pay for (ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini) and is unfortunately heavily rate limited, which makes

12 Aug 2025 · 3 min read

The complements to AI will increase in value

Here's a model I use to think about how AI will change work. Some parts of every activity will cost 1,000x less than they do

4 Aug 2025 · 2 min read

Shaping is high-leverage work for leaders

I've recently seen several engineers struggle when moving to the role of leading a small product team and managing a couple engineers. There are so many

23 Jul 2025 · 2 min read

Are software jobs set to grow or shrink?

There seem to be two views of what will happen with engineers' jobs given the new efficiencies from using advanced AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc)

5 Jul 2025 · 2 min read

Gemini 2.5 Pro isn't quite Claude 3.7 at coding

Gemini 2.5 Pro was just released and it could be a big deal, if its coding abilities pan out. The current positioning of Gemini has been roughly

25 Mar 2025 · 2 min read

Hiring as the marriage problem

At one point in my career, our company was hiring for role of a Head of Marketing. I got a strong referral from a friend, reached out, the

25 Mar 2025 · 1 min read

Which European institution is running a massive LLM hackathon?

Anthropic, OpenAI and possibly others are doing one in the US with 1,000 participants from public sector research institutes. It's called an "AI Jam&

18 Mar 2025 · 1 min read

Will AI take us towards refinement of the self?

In Would You Rather Have Married Young?, Lillian Fishman writes about the "fundamental ethos that had long governed the young secular woman" in the last 50

17 Mar 2025 · 1 min read

Half AI, half random curiosities

I rarely look at the search analytics for my blog, but today I did. I am really amused by the most common search queries that bring people to

11 Mar 2025 · 1 min read

Vibe-code with stable infrastructure

Vibe-coding produces close-to-unmaintainable code right now. But it is an acceptable trade-off in places where it produces decent results and maintainability matters less -- for example making simple

10 Mar 2025 · 1 min read