If you look around the corporate landscape today, you’ll notice a disturbing trend: management is actively trying to strangle the productivity out of their teams. Don’t let the recent push for AI by management to “increase productivity” fool you. They don’t care about effectiveness, they care about following the trends. I’ve gone into contract after
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I want to talk about the philosophy of a tool. It is an extremely important concept, and in the day and age of AI, people desperately need to be reminded of what a tool actually is. This entire theory started for me about a year ago. I was running a bunch of AI experiments, having
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I want to talk about why philosophy is actually far more important than people think, especially when it comes to software engineering, systems design, and AI. When most people hear the word “philosophy,” they roll their eyes. They think of abstract, circular arguments that don’t matter in the real world. But true philosophy, good philosophy,
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I’ve been making massive headway on tgo, my TypeScript to Go compiler library, but it is forcing me to confront some hard realities about how I manage systems, AI, and even people. The Cost of Scaling Complexity Since the last devlog, I’ve added full support for Node libraries—fs, path, process, and a few others. Right
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