Thoughts

Software is literature now. I'm not being metaphorical. Your IDE is a chat window. Your compiler is a conversationalist. Every interaction with AI is an act of writing. We're...

Over the last week or so, something has shifted in the state-of-the-art in AI, agents and vibe coding and that is namely this - This shit works now yo! For me this realisation...

Hello all, so after a year of experimenting on recruiting I've decided that I love it and will continue to do this for the foreseeable future. And so to mark this moment of...

For the past week I have been at AltSpace's annual indie-hacking retreat and it has been a real eye opener. AltSpace hosts this event once a year, bringing together a few dozen...

Every few years, technology observers proclaim the death of a major paradigm. "Email is dead," they'd say, before watching usage climb to new heights. "Personal computers are...

Some weeks ago, I reluctantly bought a Cursor subscription. Reluctantly because it was quite obvious that emacs was dead and was nowhere in the AI coding game. So Cursor it was...

The Great Rebundling: Why AI is Setting You Free I love how every time a new model drops, everyone on twitter loses their shit. It's an understandable reaction tbh. You're...

The history of the world is replete with languages that no longer exist. 90% of Native American tongues have no living speakers. The rest are all moribund. In our lifetimes we...

The irony of me advising anyone on how to craft a CV is not lost on me, but in my defence it was a different time. Startup land hadn't been over run by suits and HR and PMs. And...