Continue to Write Well — Never Mind the AI Detectors
Yes, there’s an em-dash in the title. Yes, I wrote that. By hand. No, I will not stop using em-dashes in my regular writing.
I’m starting to see threads on Reddit and other places where people are alleging the use of AI simply because someone dared to write well, or used appropriate punctuation & typography. And then others reply, saying they’ve started introducing errors in their writing intentionally, to ward off AI Detector bots that seem to think that all well-written text must be AI-authored because humans don’t write that way.
Vibe Coding for Engineers: The Good Parts (continued)
After the brief warm-up with smaller tasks, I started delegating slightly larger tasks to LLMs.
Vibe Coding for Engineers: The Good Parts
Pretty much every technology has had its good parts and its bad parts. Vibe coding may be new to the game, but it shares more than a few fundamental characteristics with others that came before it. From an AI skeptic turned cautiously-optimistic vibe-coding engineer, here are a few specific engineering tasks that can be accelerated using AI.
How to NOT get Promoted
There are a lot of guides & docs about what you should do to get promoted, but not much about the typical mistakes most people make, despite following all that other advice.
Make new features discoverable without annoying your users
Developers are faced with a choice: we need to make our users aware of new features that have been built since the last release. But we don’t want to get in the way of users trying to use our apps, so it has to be done without breaking their flow.
