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January 2026

The AI Ready Software Developer ↗

A series of very rational and clear thinking about how LLMs can be helpful but are very limited

LLMs, Context Windows & Brown M&Ms ↗

How LLMs fail the brown m&m test

AWS and Microsoft are selling much more than cloud services ↗

An extremely important corporate value is never getting blamed

Being creative requires taking risks ↗

People who are able to remain interesting design their lives to avoid [mode collapse] happening to them

Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) ↗

Code is a liability and the cost is the work to maintain it

Slowing Down AI On Purpose ↗

Use LLMs in small batches of code with the human still in the driver's seat

Agentic AI and The Mythical Agent-Month ↗

Scaling agents up in parallel still hits mathematical limits and is limited by the common knowledge problem


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