Utah software engineer writing about tech and management dysfunction. Former SF, work at AI startups, live with pugs. Strong opinions on everything from AI Engineering to Silicon Valley culture. Hackerpug: honest takes on what's broken.
How AI coding is breaking down the gates of code creativity. I was interviewing at this AI startup last month—you know the type, Series A funding, ping pong tables, and enough kombucha to fuel a small commune. The recruiter, a perfectly nice person who probably went to Stanford and
How my "unfocused" career accidentally proved David Epstein's thesis—and why the best AI engineers aren't the ones who can code the fastest. Your command of quicksort, or your rote memorization of dynamic programming algorithms won't spare you from the impending shift
I was lying in my studio apartment, staring at the ceiling, trying to figure out why I wasn't happy. Here I was, getting paid more than I'd ever made in my life at an AI startup, and yet something felt fundamentally wrong. The irony wasn'
Or: Why good architecture shouldn't require a Series A wake-up call Picture this: I'm sitting in an Irish ER waiting room, staring at the very best public access programming the country has to offer at 5 am, while I wait on blood tests for "a