Essays and long-form thinking from Grant Dai.
An engineer traces AI agent evolution from ChatGPT unit tests to end-to-end task delivery, exploring Agent Skills, learning strategy, and career risk.。
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 failed—but 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 coding—and asks whether a creation still feels like his own when AI agents handle most of the implementation.