A hand with precision tweezers lifting a WHY? tag off a glass pane of code on a drafting table

What Are You Coding?

A demo is a movie. Code is literature. If you cannot say what you are building, your teammates cannot either.

Two maps of the same coastline on a cartographer's desk under lamplight, one clean and green-bordered, one weathered with pencil corrections and margin warnings, with a captain's log and compass between them, a metaphor for symbolic consistency versus evidence that survived contact with reality

The Green Build and the Hermeneutic Gap

A green CI proves consistency. LLMs are hermeneutic engines: they cannot tell whether the system is true to the world you care about.

Two-panel comic — a user asks an AI if a mushroom is edible; after RIP, the AI apologizes for the confusion and offers to learn about poisonous mushrooms.

Grounded sources

AI‑generated content that is good enough can masquerade facts and induce mistakes. Are we detecting this systematically?

A drafting table merging into a terminal screen — compass, ruler, and wireframe blueprints dissolving into lines of code — the boundary between design and programming erased

Design Is the New Programming

The bottleneck moved. Execution got cheap and most builders aren’t optimizing for it. Yet.

Silhouetted figure in a doorway holding keys towards a brightly lit factory floor — control of the whole production at stake

Process Before Solution

AI is getting better at solving it. You still don’t know how. This will keep happening.