Hot takes, build logs, and field notes from the world of AI-assisted development.
I volunteered to make the year-end slideshow for my son's wrestling team. The other parents ignored every instruction I gave them. ChatGPT Codex saved my sanity and made a 216-slide presentation in hours.
March 14, 2026
Two months after my son asked me why he should bother learning to code, he figured out how to use AI tools to level up his studying on his own. Nobody taught him. He just saw the opportunity and got to work.
February 28, 2026
The internet was supposed to flatten power structures and expose corruption. It didn't. Vibe coding might finally deliver on that broken promise by making complexity itself obsolete as a mechanism of control.
February 15, 2026
A generation of teenagers is quietly terrified that AI will make their futures obsolete before they even get started. We need to change the conversation.
January 27, 2026
Discusses the Tailwind CSS layoffs and frames the shift as a natural market evolution. The era of monetizing developer pain through complexity arbitrage is ending.
January 9, 2026
Compares AI model performance (ChatGPT vs. Gemini) through a real vinyl record classification task. Explores how raw intelligence metrics don't guarantee practical usability.
December 16, 2025