AUG 14, 2026
Mr. Meeseeks (Metaphor for AI)
I'm not a big Rick & Morty enthusiast, but a colleague pointed me to this episode as a metaphor for working with coding agents, and boy, does it fit.
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AUG 14, 2026
AI is planting the seeds of its own destruction
One of the obviously exceptional things about the current AI investment boom that we're in is how much money is being dumped into AI and LLMs, and how much...
AUG 12, 2026
VORA: Value Over Replacement Agent
I’m not the world’s biggest baseball fan, but I’ve always loved VORP - Value over replacement player. It’s an idea I’ve riffed on numerous times for various situations - basically take an average of X and evaluate individual emails, flows, etc against that average. What do those specific X bring to the table vs. the average? What makes them special and unique?
AUG 11, 2026
AI is Mediocre (Metaphor for AI)
As many folks worry about LLMs racing towards AGI and the eventual machine apocalypse, the more I work with LLMs on coding, the more I'm coming to the opposite...
AUG 10, 2026
The Eye of Sauron (Metaphor for AI)
Claude code does amazing things. It also does blindly stupid things. Things that I wouldn't expect a first year CS student to do. Understanding how and why it...
AUG 10, 2026
Metaphors for AI Development
I've always had a soft spot for a good analogy or metaphor. I've found that there's a massive amount of understanding that can be communicated succinctly with...
AUG 5, 2026
The 3x3 Rule of AI Assisted Software Development
The goal of AI Assisted Software Development, as I see it, is to figure out how to make a repeatable, consistent process out of building software with LLMs. To...
AUG 4, 2026
AI Shouldn’t be writing for you
It might seem odd, given that the thing LLMs are really good at is language, but the one thing that you really shouldn’t use AI for is writing for you....
AUG 3, 2026
Getting AI to just try the soup
A joke that my mind keeps coming back is told by one of the Eddie Murphys at the end of the classic '90s comedy Coming to America:
JUL 1, 2026
Escaping the Claud-ottery
Many of you remember that feeling of doing the first few rounds of incremental development with Claude code and being surprised and impressed with what it was...