Using AI for coding right now is like using an automated CNC machine for every single cut in a carpentry shop. It’s fast. The joints fit perfectly today. But if you never pick up a hand saw or chisel, never learn the grain of the wood, your creative muscles atrophy. You’re trading your future mastery […]
Read More →In 1986, Fred Brooks published No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering in IEEE Computer. He made a careful, almost reluctant prediction: There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. Forty years later — almost exactly — […]
Read More →Python still owns the models. TypeScript ate the application layer. Here’s why — and what it means for what you build next. Table Of Contents The framing nobody puts on the cover If you read tech headlines in late 2025 and early 2026, you’ve probably seen the claim that TypeScript “overtook Python” or “won AI.” […]
Read More →You installed a skill. The README looks fine. The demo in the docs worked on the first try. Should you keep it? You can’t tell from the README. You have to run the skill on your own work and look at what comes out. This post walks through doing that. We start with the simplest […]
Read More →Ranking repos by stars favors visibility over fit. That can be a fair first filter—stars are cheap and usually mean someone noticed the project—but treating the count as proof of quality, maintenance, or production readiness is the common mistake. What follows is what stars actually measure, where they mislead, and what to check on the […]
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