Stories by swah

Patience too cheap to meter

The Vibes

The importance of virtue in software engineering

Why can't language models come up with new ideas?

How to Understand Things

Amortality Is Uncomfortable to Contemplate

Basic Claude Code

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

Projects fail at large tech companies

Getting things “done” in large tech companies

I don't care about your magic prompts

Text Based Productivity

A way forward

Ask HN: Where Is PragmaticPulp?

When you should lie to the language model

The 80/20 Bins

This is it

A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs

Pseudonyms lets you practice agency

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