◆ Judgment in the AI Era · Part 3
When Was the Last Time You Read Code Seriously?
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
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◆ Judgment in the AI Era · Part 1If the Code Meets Spec and the Bugs Get Fixed, Does It Matter That You Can't Read It?
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.
◆ Judgment in the AI Era · Part 2If AI Erases the Boundaries Between Planning, Development, and Design, What Remains?
The claim that job boundaries are collapsing is only half true. What collapses is production; judgment and responsibility remain.
Bun rewrite Exposed Something: OSS Could Only Stop External AI
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.
What makes a package you can keep using for years different
A good package has to be user-friendly not just in features, but in dependencies, version bumps, compatibility, and release policy.
The invisible cost in PR diffs: we are not reviewing the code our users receive
The bundle costs that code review misses, and how to surface them in the PR.
◆ The State of Next.js · Part 3Whose React Is It?
The questions React Foundation must answer
In the Age of AI-Generated Code, Where is Frontend Engineering Headed?
AI coding tools aren't changing developers—they're changing the nature of what developers do.