Articles by jsomers
35

Can you reverse engineer our neural network? (janestreet.com)

2

A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (2023) (newyorker.com)

1

I design with Claude more than Figma now (janestreet.com)

1

A coder considers the waning days of the craft (2023) (newyorker.com)

5

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking (newyorker.com)

32

The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction (jsomers.net)

18

Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck

6

An experiment that turned back biological time (nehalslearnings.substack.com)

15

Vivarium: The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction] (jsomers.net)

2

I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any doc's keystrokes (2014) (jsomers.net)

17

A Revolution in How Robots Learn (newyorker.com)

1

The Coming Software Apocalypse (2017) (theatlantic.com)

151

The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis (jsomers.net)

25

More people should write (2012) (jsomers.net)

361

A coder considers the waning days of the craft (newyorker.com)

1

A poet’s guide to product management – Jane Street podcast (signalsandthreads.com)

2

Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off due to software bug (adn.com)

25

“Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session (janestreet.com)

26

An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)