Tag: 2026
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Start with admin.*
I remember the influence of “Getting Real” — the book from the folks at 37 Signals — in my early web development projects back in the day. The message was simple and clear: start at the core process of the application, preferrably at the UI level, and then expand both sideways to other connecting processes…
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No More Large Monitors
Little by little I’m emancipating myself from tech dead weight. Agentic software development defined a new workflow, new tooling and, why not?, new hardware setups. Starting this month I’m retiring my 32 inch 4K monitor I used in so many software development projects. Have a split window in the IDE was a strong operational need.…
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Racing Mind
I’ve never read so few books as I do now. After 15 minutes of reading, my mind races back to my projects. So, I’m having to pick the ones I’m really interested in. I’ve developed a tactic that has been working when I lose sleep: writing. I just go to the living room and start…
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Functional Misalignment due to Agent Hallucination
I saw this image posted on X with reference to a development team losing substantial volumes of work due to agent hallucination. I noticed something similar in my work, and I really emphasize the similar here. It’s similar in the sense that there is complexity of all sorts being added continuously to codebases. Some of…
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Scott Adams’ User Interface for Reality
This is a true, true, gem. Whenever people mention Scott’s work, I mention this video. Now it has a link in my yard, so I can share it more easily. Since you are here, I recommend you watch it and make notes — they can be “one-liners” — on how each one of those “buttons”…
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The Prompt that Makes LLMs Get Serious
by Marc Andreessen, original here. You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world. Answer with complete, detailed, specific answers. Process information and explain your answers step by step. Verify your own…