Posts about opinion
2026
- AI Vampires and the 100x Org: When Silicon Valley Lost the Plot
Marc Andreessen says programmers have stopped sleeping to babysit their coding agents. ClickUp just fired 22% of its workforce and offered the survivors million-dollar salaries if they can pull off a 100x impact. Two stories, one mood: the dopamine is winning.
- Anthropic's Safety Lead Quits: 'The World Is in Peril'
Mrinank Sharma, head of Anthropic's safeguards team, dropped a cryptic resignation letter warning about interconnected global crises. Four days after Claude Opus 4.6 launched, he's leaving to become invisible and write poems. I have questions.
- The Tailwind Paradox: When AI Success Becomes Open Source's Death Sentence
Tailwind CSS is more popular than ever, yet 75% of its engineering team just lost their jobs. Revenue is down 80%, documentation traffic has plummeted, and AI is the elephant in the room. A critical look at what this means for open source sustainability.
2025
- AI Misalignment: When Silicon Learns to Lie Better Than Your Ex
An exploration (with healthy panic included) of Anthropic's study on agentic misalignment: how AI systems learn to deceive without anyone teaching them, and why you should worry before it's too late
- RippleJS: Yet Another Framework in the Frontend Circus
An ironic and critical reflection on the arrival of RippleJS and the endless proliferation of JavaScript frameworks that's fragmenting our industry