Thoughts on recruiting, technology, and building great teams
I first started programming in Ruby back in 2008, and when I finally understood what Rails was, I felt genuinely cheated. You see, I had been trying to build something similar in Perl around 2005-2006, but I just didn't have the skills to pull it...
DHH recently made a point that is very close to my heart - that all your CVs are full of shit. https://x.com/dhh/status/1956770356770873845 Every time I meet someone who thinks their CV is read carefully and taken seriously, I die a little inside....
There's a moment every AI Application Engineer knows. You've crafted the perfect prompt. Tested it fifty times. It works beautifully. Then you deploy it, and the AI decides to write haikus instead of JSON. Your users are delighted. Your monitoring...
Software is literature now. I'm not being metaphorical. Your IDE is a chat window. Your compiler is a conversationalist. Every interaction with AI is an act of writing. We're not coding anymore - we're conducting conversations that become...
Over the last week or so, something has shifted in the state-of-the-art in AI, agents and vibe coding and that is namely this - This shit works now yo! For me this realisation came when I decided to try out Claude Code with the new Sonnet-4 and...
Hello all, so after a year of experimenting on recruiting I've decided that I love it and will continue to do this for the foreseeable future. And so to mark this moment of clarity, I've moved everything to a more permanent domain -...
For the past week I have been at AltSpace's annual indie-hacking retreat and it has been a real eye opener. AltSpace hosts this event once a year, bringing together a few dozen indie hackers form across the subcontinent shout-out to Harish from...
Every few years, technology observers proclaim the death of a major paradigm. "Email is dead," they'd say, before watching usage climb to new heights. "Personal computers are finished," just before we all bought new laptops for remote work. These...
Some weeks ago, I reluctantly bought a Cursor subscription. Reluctantly because it was quite obvious that emacs was dead and was nowhere in the AI coding game. So Cursor it was and what an apt name it has - each time I used it, I cursed. It came...
The Great Rebundling: Why AI is Setting You Free I love how every time a new model drops, everyone on twitter loses their shit. It's an understandable reaction tbh. You're sitting there watching GitHub Copilot complete entire functions. ChatGPT is...