Data Science at Home

I wrote a chess engine that beats real players. I still can't play chess.
Developers who hand their coding to AI are heading the same way: they can build the machine but can't play the game. We go through the evidence (Anthropic, METR, Microsoft/CMU), the best counterarguments, and the habits that protect your skills. The main one: never generate more code than you can ...

DHH told Rails World that hand-written code is over, that HEY's backend is being AI-rewritten in Rust ("amazing, as long as you never look at it"), and that developer happiness no longer matters. This episode checks his statements.

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Fifty years ago Fred Brooks showed why adding more people to a late project makes it later. Today we do the same thing with tokens — more context, more autonomy, same myth, different currency.

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A 2025 solo-author paper on non-generative decision models, a 2026 frontier-lab launch that looks a lot like it, and what these fast, non-autoregressive models can and can't actually do.

Struggling with AI and Software? Here is my new book available for purchase on https://mythicaltokenmonth.com/

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