Will AI replace developers? Wrong question.
Being a developer in the age of AI: what developers actually do all day, what AI can (or can’t) do with it, and what will change anyway.
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What I think, in writing
Essays on AI, tech, business and society, whenever I have something to say.
Go or Rust for a backend? How to choose when you love both
Go or Rust for a mobile app backend? Two excellent languages, four constraints (cost, security, battery, performance): the story of a hard decision, criterion by criterion, and the stack that came out of it.
Understanding AI and mastering its jargon
Understand AI as a whole and master its jargon: LLM, token, prompt, context, RAG, agents, MCP, skills. Explained simply, from the big picture down to the details, with everyday images.
Which Go framework should you choose when none is the obvious choice?
You’re starting a backend in Go, and everyone recommends a different tool. In Go, no framework is the obvious choice: here’s how to decide for your situation, and the criterion people forget to look at.
Which Rust framework should you choose when none is the obvious choice?
axum, Actix Web, Rocket, Poem, Salvo or Loco? In Rust, no web framework has become the obvious choice. What the question really hides, and how to choose for your situation, with no tutorial and no benchmark.
Understanding Claude Code and using it effectively
How to use Claude Code effectively: understand the machine, choose among seven ways of working, organize your project, and make the spec the real source code.