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I, like many of you, am wrestling with how to best apply AI to my career as a software engineer. As we continue to adopt to AI-assisted coding, there is becoming more and more evidence that we may be limiting the ability of our future selves to own and support software systems. In my last post, I made the argument that by writing this blog by hand, it forced a deeper understanding of the material, and resulted in something I was proud to call my own. Leveraging AI for writing removed both of these benefits, and stripped the satisfaction I get from having a blog in the first place. ...

This blog has been a part of my life for over fifteen years ago. When I first started, I was inspired by Patrick McKenzie’s article Don’t End The Week With Nothing. This post left a memorable impression on 20-something me who had yet to consider what work really was — trading time and (sometimes) skill for money. You work for a week, collect your paycheck on Friday, and then you and the company are even. If you are happy settling for even, that’s great. But then how can you get ahead? What would it take to finish a week with more than a break-even trade of time for money? Here I will quote Patrick verbatim: ...