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
The GPU export limit might start to matter
White House's new chip rules seem to not have huge impact right now, in the "tier 2" countries like Estonia. It is unlikely we
20 Jan 2025 · 1 min read