Thoughts for navigating the AI era. Build skills, systems, and a life that compounds.
An engineer traces AI agent evolution from ChatGPT unit tests to end-to-end task delivery, exploring Agent Skills, learning strategy, and career risk.ć
From Rakuten to Fast Retailing, an engineer reflects on career uncertainty, product quality, autonomy, and how organizations shape technical work.
ver the past decade, I built travel sites, open-source tools, and blogs that failedābut each one taught me about products and helped me become a software engineer.
From tinkering with Windows 98 at age nine to leaving accounting and becoming a software engineer, this is the story of my long journey back to code.
A frontend engineer reflects on a decade in Japan, his transition from accounting, open-source work, and AI-assisted codingāand asks whether a creation still feels like his own when AI agents handle most of the implementation.
Once I started using AI to help me write, I noticed a few patterns. ## Pattern 1: The deep opening It opens with something that sounds profound: "In this era of rapid change, X is redefining how we ..." Or: "Most people think X. The real pr
Lately I read Andrew Ng's new post on X, [AI Engineering Skills Map: Shaping the build](https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/2098459474608672916?s=20), and it made me, an engineer of more than ten years, anxious about my career. The core is one s
For more than twenty years the internet ran on a stable supply-and-demand relationship where everyone, or nearly everyone, won. Sites like blogs gave search engines free content to crawl, and the search engines sent traffic back to those si
I once watched a documentary where a business owner spent a week living as a poor person so he could explain why poor people stay poor. After selling his labor for a life that was not so dignified, the owner reached this conclusion: > The m
Life has far more room for error than most of us assume. One mistake, one failure, does not mean the rest of it collapses. Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms era hardly won a battle. Jensen Huang nearly bankrupted Nvidia more than once. Life is
I found an interesting thread where the author shares seven prompts for using AI to find ways to create wealth. I have not tried them properly yet, so I will update this once I have results. [https://x.com/raul_ia_prod/status/20914467262173