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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 problem is Y."

Pattern 2: Announcing the thes…

Lately I read Andrew Ng's new post on X, AI Engineering Skills Map: Shaping the build, and it made me, an engineer of more than ten years, anxious about my career.

The core is one sentence: a strong software engineer in the AI era has to move past implementing requirements someon…

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 sites. Advertisers could then use that pul…

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 main problem with working for a living is t…