Why the layers piled up, why we returned to the server, and why the stack survives even after agents. And why the survival of a stack and the value of the people who know it are two separate things
The friction that made judgment expensive is the same friction that taught it. Why the skill growing most valuable in the AI era is the one being cultivated least
If the spec is satisfied and the bugs get fixed, do you still need to be able to read the code? Understanding doesn't disappear — this essay traces where it moves.
The claim that job boundaries are collapsing is only half true. What collapses is production; judgment and responsibility remain.
Bun moved roughly 960,000 lines from Zig to Rust in six days using Claude Code. The meaning here is not code quality but OSS governance and resource asymmetry.
A good package has to be user-friendly not just in features, but in dependencies, version bumps, compatibility, and release policy.
I'm definitely coding faster, but why are my codebase and skills staying the same? Examining the gap between perceived and proven benefits.
Switching costs stronger than technical superiority
The questions React Foundation must answer
Hey Edge Middleware, how have you been?
How infinite scroll is being reevaluated from UX, performance, accessibility, and legal perspectives
AI coding tools aren't changing developers—they're changing the nature of what developers do.
I don't know what the future holds, but shouldn't we just keep developing diligently?
