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AI Finally Gave Me a Path. Now I Have More Work to Do.

I was standing in the dirt staring at a blue line on my phone, trying to figure out how I had just ruined math.

What I look for in junior engineers now

In my “ the kids are alright ” post, I argued that junior engineers won’t learn the same way we did.

The kids are alright

I’m not that worried that junior programmers won’t learn the same way we did.

From Lovable to Drupal: how we made the DriesNote demo real

After the DriesNote, one of the most common questions we got was some version of this: " how did you actually do the Lovable-to-Drupal migration, and how could we do it ourselves ?"

Let’s Go Chasing Waterfalls

TL;DR: AI flips the economics of software delivery. Code is getting cheap. Ambiguity is still expensive.

Agent Experience is more important than User Experience

Okay, put down your pitchforks. The title is a bit of a joke.

Vibes on Rails

TL;DR: Let agents act autonomously and "do the work", but rely on the platform to strictly enforce the success or failure of those actions based on deterministic rules.

The Black Box Inversion: How AI Gets Neurodiversity Exactly Backwards

AI bias is always a concern but this is one of the more concerning ones I've run into recently.

5 Things You Can Do Today to Ground AI (and Why It Matters)

Grounding a large language model, i.e. linking it to your own documents, is the fastest way to cut hallucinations, deliver accurate answers, and build trust.

Boise Trails Challenge AI Route Planner

The Boise Trails Challenge starts today. It's a month-long challenge to complete ~170 miles of Boise’s trails in a month.

Using OpenAI Codex to Identify Open Source Candidates in My Drupal Project

This post explores how I used OpenAI Codex to identify and prepare one of my custom Drupal modules (GeoWall) for open source release.

Follow-up: So, What Was OpenAI Codex Doing in That Meltdown?

Context Windows, Reasoning Tokens, and --full-auto Explained. A technical breakdown of what happens when an AI coding assistant reaches its limits.

Every Interaction Is a Turing Test: How to Make Sure You Still Sound Human in the Age of AI

Learn how to maintain your authentic human voice while leveraging AI writing tools, and why our brains are so good at detecting AI-generated content.

Applied AI: A Practical Guide

Learn how to leverage AI effectively in your daily work without technical expertise. This practical guide shows how your existing professional knowledge is the key to successful AI implementation.

Brace for the Operators

The way people interact with the web is changing. Learn how AI agents are transforming web traffic, analytics, and e-commerce.

Is AI Replacing Development Teams?

The real question isn't 'Will AI replace developers?' but rather, 'What can we start to do differently?'