How I use AI (Oct 2026)

How I keep up with AI progress

Last Updated: 30th June 2025

Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026

As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.

Agentultra - Why I Won't Use AI

If you are a programmer in 2025 you have likely been pressured into adopting generative artificial intelligence tools into your workflow. Maybe you have already been ordered to. You have probably wondered if next year will be the year that you will be replaced with an AI. Or maybe in the next five years. Weren’t we supposed to be replaced already?

I'm Coding by Hand

ai is here. so i'm spending 3 months coding the old way

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

The Summer 2026 Edition

Introducing AI 2027

Or maybe 2028, it's complicated

God Damn AI is making me dumb

It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...

State of AI Report 2025

The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.

The New Software Lifecycle

I co-wrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software lifecycle. I'm not going to summarize the whole thing. Instead, here are the handful of ...

Writing documentation for AI: best practices | kapa.ai docs

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems like Kapa rely on your

How we use AI at Stalwart

It is difficult to have a conversation about software in 2026 without AI showing up in it. Two years ago the interesting question was…

Monthly Roundup #46: September 2026

AI has taken over this blog.

I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?

Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.