There’s a particular kind of fatigue you only notice after you’ve spent too long inside other people’s certainty.

It usually begins in a place that looks harmless. A Discord you paid to join. A “serious builders” Slack. A community where everyone seems busy, opinionated, and oddly confident about what the “right move” is....

There is a particular kind of lie your network tells you.

You run a speedtest. The numbers look perfect. You breathe out. The server is “fine”....

The conversation about AI and the future of software engineering is often framed incorrectly. It usually oscillates between two extremes (total replacement or total irrelevance). Both are intellectually lazy.

A better framing is simpler (and more uncomfortable):...