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Thank you for the kind words! I did end up taking that five month break in my writing to try and develop a different voice, but it's a struggle. Because our company runs pretty smo…

For the sake of honesty, I should say that these aren't wild amounts of money, it's just a high effective hourly rate. If we achieved 100% utilisation, it would be, but really we'r…

I've managed to recruit in Perth, which is probably as cursed as it gets. The two things are: 1. I don't bother recruiting on the public market. They're genuinely too incompetent, …

My history is all pretty public on the blog, but tl;dr write every day, don't be a coward re: topic, and work hard at writing well. It's easier than ever to meet cool people in tec…

It's bedtime in Melbourne, but I write what would be fair to call a well-known tech blog, and very publicly started a consultancy about 1.5 years ago. Pretty much in the same niche…

This was funny enough that I checked out your blog and it absolutely rules.

Experimental History makes me look at my own writing and go "This is all so mid".

I'm firing you for being unable to adequately commune with the machine spirit. (But for real, a good test suite seems like a great place to start before letting an LLM run wild... …

I thought it was harmless(ish) fun, but David Gerard put out a post stating that Yegge used Gas Town to push out a crypto project that rug pulled his supporters, while he personall…

He was the keynote at YOW! so I can't capture all the nuance and hope I'm not doing him a disservice with my interpretation, but the tl;dr is he: "LLMs drastically decrease the cos…

At my first job, all the applications the data people developed were compulsorily evaluated through Fortify (I assume this is HP Fortify) and to this day I have no idea what the se…

Beck was in Melbourne a few weeks ago, and his take on LLM usage was so far divorced from what Yegge is doing that their views on what LLMs are capable of in early 2026 are irrecon…

That's fair. I overstated my point a bit -- if a project was on schedule and it could be delayed by one day to improve something nebulous, many would agree. It's just that the trad…

It's important to note that many of those people aren't winning. What you're witnessing is the marketing equivalent of what random government software engineers produce. A good num…

Oh, I glossed over that in my response. I've had people at the C-level admit that they don't care about ethics to me, and I especially see startup CEOs lie a lot, or otherwise be s…

Just wanted to pop in and say that I think Sean is absolutely right here. I've tried the ultra-cynical view at workplaces, and would have had better results with some "idealism", w…

My blog is pretty well-known and linking feels a bit self-promote-y, so I tend to avoid it. But since it might help, here you go! https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/on-burnout-mental-…

I've written about getting out of some giga-depression a few years ago, but having a good therapist was massive. Working out kept me busy and mitigated symptoms, but I don't think …

I'm a huge fan of https://eblog.fly.dev/index.html . The author, Efron, very graciously advises me on a lot of little things around my engineering practice, and I've learned a huge…

Yeah, I run into this a lot too, hah. It's depressing but also pretty funny when you've got enough distance from it. My favorite was an ex-girlfriend working in HR interviewed a ca…

I bought two copies of Computer Engineering For Babies for some close friends! They were absolutely delightful.