The Specification Revolution: How AI is Flipping Software Development Upside Down
For decades, software development has followed a familiar pattern: gather requirements, write specifications, then build the code that makes those specs…
Category: AI
Why AI Keeps Making Stuff Up: The Real Reason Language Models Hallucinate
Picture this: You ask a state-of-the-art AI chatbot for someone's birthday, specifically requesting an answer only if it actually knows.
Vibe coding 101: How to build software by talking to AI (without setting your project on fire)
The explosive rise of large language models (LLMs) has given birth to a new kind of developer: the vibe coder .
In Defense of “Vibe Coding”: Why Your Personal Scripts Don’t Need to Pass Code Review
The term "vibe coding" doesn't appear in any computer science textbook , but ask any developer who's spent time with ChatGPT, Claude, or GitHub Copilot…
The Probabilistic Revolution: How AI is Making Software Engineering More Like “Real” Engineering
For decades, software engineers have endured a peculiar form of professional imposter syndrome. While their colleagues in mechanical, civil, and chemical…
The LLM Cost Paradox: How “Cheaper” AI Models Are Breaking Budgets
In the seemingly upside-down world of artificial intelligence economics, getting cheaper has never been more expensive.
AI Gets Its “I Know Kung Fu” Moment: Researchers Create Instant Expertise Downloads for Language Models
Remember that iconic scene in The Matrix where Neo gets martial arts expertise instantly downloaded into his brain, then opens his eyes and declares "I…
The Janitor’s Induction Machine: Rediscovering Peter Putnam’s Logic of Mind
December 1987. A bicycle goes down on East Main Street in Houma, Louisiana. The rider—a night janitor—dies.
The Web’s Old Guard Isn’t Chasing AGI—They’re Building the New Infrastructure
Christina Wodtke, veteran product designer and Stanford lecturer, captured something profound recently: "The old timers who built the early web are coding…
The Fast Fashion Era of SaaS: When Software Becomes Disposable
Sam Altman's recent observation about "entering the fast fashion era of SaaS" cuts to the heart of a transformation already underway in software…