Who catches AI mistakes at work? Not the smartest person in the room. It has never once been the smartest person in the room.
AI Code Review Bottleneck: Nobody Owns It
Everybody agrees the AI code review bottleneck is real: making things got cheap, checking them did not. Then you look at the org chart, and nobody owns it.
The Disappearing Senior: AI and Entry Level Jobs
Everyone is arguing about AI and entry level jobs. Almost nobody is watching the other end of the ladder, where the seniors are quietly disappearing.
Competence Debt: I Ran the Test on Myself
Every time you ship something you could not have built yourself, you take on competence debt. Here is what I found when I checked my own balance.
AI in the Iliad and the Odyssey : Homer Wrote the First Prompt
Golden robots. Twenty self-driving tripods. Ships with no pilot. Once you start looking for AI in the Iliad and the Odyssey, you cannot stop.
Jobs Are Disappearing Quietly, The Math Keeps Me Awake
Jobs are disappearing quietly, and a personal essay on the private arithmetic of fear, and why changing work is never the same as diminished worth.
We Need to Talk About How AI Actually Makes You Feel
Can I be honest with you? We need to talk about how AI actually makes you feel, because most of what we say about AI is not really about AI at all: it’s about us.