Articles by swah
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A substitute for thinking (federicopereiro.com)

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[flagged] Anthropic is making a huge mistake (geohot.github.io)

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Pain and Reflection = Progress (federicopereiro.com)

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Joy and Curiosity #69 (thorstenball.com)

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Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (seangoedecke.com)

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Books I Enjoyed in 2025 (borretti.me)

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trivium 21dec2025 (leahneukirchen.org)

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I wish people were more public (borretti.me)

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I Wish People Were More Public (borretti.me)

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Jujutsu and Claude Code (slavakurilyak.com)

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A quick theory of system complexity (federicopereiro.com)

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V8 Garbage Collector (wingolog.org)

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PragmataPro 0.903 Out Now (fsd.it)

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Working in Between Public and Private (jacobian.org)

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AI interpretability has the same problems as philosophy of mind (seangoedecke.com)

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We have always been at war with Eastasia (geohot.github.io)

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Jonathan Tang on C2 (c2.com)

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Everything I know about good API design (seangoedecke.com)

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x times y (federicopereiro.com)

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Trivium July 2025 (leahneukirchen.org)

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AGI Representation and Will (federicopereiro.com)

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Everything I know about good system design (seangoedecke.com)

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Andrej Karpathy on Software 3.0: Software in the Age of AI (latent.space)

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Notes on Managing ADHD (borretti.me)

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how to get smart again (postcardsbyelle.substack.com)

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The first big AI disaster is yet to happen (seangoedecke.com)

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Introduction to Bases (help.obsidian.md)

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Being fat is a trap (federicopereiro.com)

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Some tips for off-race ultra running (federicopereiro.com)

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Self-Guaranteeing Promises (stephango.com)

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In defense of shallow technical knowledge (seangoedecke.com)

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Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work (seangoedecke.com)

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Why We Think (lilianweng.github.io)

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Why strong engineers are rarely blocked (seangoedecke.com)

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Patience too cheap to meter (seangoedecke.com)

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The Vibes (taoofmac.com)

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The importance of virtue in software engineering (seangoedecke.com)

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Why can't language models come up with new ideas? (seangoedecke.com)

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How to Understand Things (nabeelqu.substack.com)

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Amortality Is Uncomfortable to Contemplate (federicopereiro.com)

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Basic Claude Code (harper.blog)

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Deregulating Distraction, Moving Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping (2014) (mindingourway.com)

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Projects fail at large tech companies (seangoedecke.com)

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Getting things “done” in large tech companies (seangoedecke.com)

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I don't care about your magic prompts (seangoedecke.com)

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Text Based Productivity (federicopereiro.com)

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A way forward (geohot.github.io)

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Ask HN: Where Is PragmaticPulp?

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When you should lie to the language model (seangoedecke.com)

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The 80/20 Bins (federicopereiro.com)

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This is it (federicopereiro.com)

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A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs (seangoedecke.com)

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Pseudonyms lets you practice agency (henrikkarlsson.xyz)

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Zhan Zhuang Standing Meditation (scottjeffrey.com)

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Don’t say you are nontechnical (federicopereiro.com)

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Dangerous Advice for Software Engineers (seangoedecke.com)

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How strong engineers break the rules and get away with it (seangoedecke.com)

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Finding the Best Sleep Tracker (karpathy.bearblog.dev)

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Tactical work in the age of layoffs (seangoedecke.com)

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The append-and-review note (karpathy.bearblog.dev)

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The future of AI is Ruby on Rails (seangoedecke.com)

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Engineers should state the obvious (seangoedecke.com)

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The 80s are still alive in Denmark (world.hey.com)

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Always Do Extra (2021) (bennorthrop.com)

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The Invitation (federicopereiro.com)

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Software is the new hardware, LLMs are the new software (federicopereiro.com)

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The good times in tech are over (seangoedecke.com)

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Refactoring to understand and "vibe coding" (seangoedecke.com)

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Comfort Bloggers (avas.space)

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Avoiding worry driven development (2020) (seangoedecke.com)

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Paths through the space of all possible solutions (seangoedecke.com)

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Using LLMs effectively isn't about prompting (seangoedecke.com)

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Three Thoughts on the Summer of AI (federicopereiro.com)

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Ask HN: How Is 100011_100001 Doing?

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Working Fast and Slow (seangoedecke.com)

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Weird Twitter (thorstenball.com)

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Using GoReleaser and GitHub Actions to release Rust and Zig projects (carlosbecker.com)

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Local Heroes (mauropandrade.substack.com)

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Quantifying Productivity (2014) (karpathy.github.io)

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"Naming Things" Is a Poor Name for Naming Things (buttondown.com)

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Two types of software engineers (thorstenball.com)

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Using a list to manage executive function (drmaciver.substack.com)

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Infinite Jest (2007) (speak.sh)

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Abstractions Are the Best Abstractions are the Worst (mbuffett.com)

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Programming Your Mind (kartikay.bearblog.dev)

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Ask HN: How can I sleep more and deeper?

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Radio Bubbles Postmortem (ash-k.itch.io)

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Just Keep Doing the Bit (sankalp.bearblog.dev)

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Getting Old (birming.com)

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Essays on programming I think about a lot (benkuhn.net)

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Trivium (leahneukirchen.org)

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Why I’m Not Writing a Productivity Series (jacobian.org)

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Ask HN: Do you pay for 1-1 coaching? Is it worth it?

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Learning by Writing (cold-takes.com)

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Cogs Bad (2012) (williame.github.io)

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Proverbs (ie some advice on coding) (liampulles.com)

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[flagged] Sama says "build for GPT-5 and AGI Now; GPT-5 in 2024, AGI in 2025" (twitter.com/h0wie_xu)

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Things You Don't See as Much of Anymore (lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com)

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A valuable trait of top software engineers: being product-minded (engineercodex.substack.com)

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When Themed Logs are More Useful than Daily Notes (eleanorkonik.com)