May 1, 2026
The Five Layers
What a Programming Language Is When the Machine Writes Most of It An AI wrote four thousand lines of code yesterday. I wrote about twenty words. The code shipped. The reason it shipped is that...
April 14, 2026
Gall's Law Got Cheap
Six weeks ago I wrote [[The Best Architecture Is the One You Delete]] about a sibling law called [[Liberato's Law]] — the reverse corollary that says the simple system replacing N complex ones...
April 4, 2026
Give Them Their Own Computer
Every week I see a new tool on X that puts a UI around multi-agent coordination. Worktree managers. Branch orchestrators. Agent spawners with dynamic allocation. Merge conflict dashboards. Each one...
March 27, 2026
The Eternal Search for the Perfect PKM App
I have been looking for the perfect note-taking app for sixteen years. I can now tell you with certainty that it doesn't exist, that I've tried all of them, and that the answer was a folder of text...
March 23, 2026
Why I Vibe in Go, Not Rust or Python
Conditional up front: this essay is about Go vs Rust vs Python for AI-assisted development with high machine-write percentage. It is not about Rust-for-humans, where Rust may well be the better...
March 22, 2026
The Rewrite Trap
The software industry has a dirty secret: it rewrites everything every twelve years, learns nothing from the rewrite, and does it again. I've watched this cycle from three angles — as a developer,...
March 22, 2026
The Best Architecture Is the One You Delete
Last week I replaced five systems with one. A NATS KV draft store. A pub/sub bridge. An event publisher. A streaming buffer. A render handler. Each correct. Each solving a real problem. Each doing...
March 20, 2026
Software Dies of Obesity, Not Starvation
Nobody ever killed a software system by not adding enough features. Every software system that has ever died — been replaced, rewritten, abandoned, or quietly moved to a server that nobody monitors...
March 20, 2026
Why Every AI-Assisted Codebase Will Collapse (Unless Someone Loves It)
I work with an AI that writes four thousand lines of code in a day. It is fast, precise, and tireless. In two days last week, it migrated eleven editor panels, deleted an entire domain, wired a...