James Anderson

Last week I deleted 3,000 lines of boilerplate and shipped two full features before lunch. Not...

In May 2026, Anthropic merged around 2,500 code changes a day into its monorepo. By September, it was...

If you're studying computer science right now, or you just graduated, you've probably heard some...

Two years ago, the choice between an open AI model and a paid one wasn't really a choice. The paid...

If you work in tech, AI feels like it's everywhere. It writes code, reviews pull requests, generates...

The third week of October 2026 was a rough one for anyone who runs software on the internet. Two...

The headlines have been impossible to miss. An AI-assisted novel takes a major prize in Japan. AI...

Somewhere in the last couple of years, a strange feeling crept in, and I don't think I'm the only one...

Someone shipped a modern, commercial web product — user accounts, Stripe payments, a search...

You do it dozens of times a day, and you almost never notice. You glance at a photo and something in...

Let's start by admitting the scary part is true, because the whole argument falls apart if I pretend...

Let me make you a small promise, because it's worth your fifteen minutes. There's an idea you rely...

Earlier this month, a developer in Atlanta got fed up with Adobe's cancellation fees. So he used...

Let me say the reassuring part first, because this is not a "don't use passkeys" piece: passkeys are...

You sent 200 applications. You heard back from three. Two were rejections and one was a "we've moved...

Here's the shape of a normal hour of AI-assisted work right now. You're in a chat tool, and it gives...

You know the moment. You're waiting for the kettle, or the elevator, or a page to load, or a friend...

Here's a pattern I keep seeing. A team wires up an AI agent that can do real things — send emails,...

An AI agent does something it shouldn't. It leaks data, or wipes the wrong database, or makes a call...

Here's a scene that plays out at basically every company that has ever had more than one...

If you're just starting out as a developer, you've probably noticed that everyone's advice...

You ask your AI assistant how to do something. It gives you clean, confident code, with an install...

Earlier this year, a company's AI agent quietly leaked internal data for three weeks before anyone...

Every time Figma renders a complex design instantly, or Google Sheets recalculates a huge spreadsheet...

In March 2026, a financial services company discovered that their customer-facing AI agent had been...

Every developer learns the same documentation types. The README. The API reference. Code comments....

Let me tell you about a project that wasn't impressive. Back in university, I built a small .NET...

There's a specific feeling every developer knows. You run a git command, hit Enter, and half a second...

You've used both kinds of interface. The one where everything is just there — you know where to...

You probably saw the headline this week: Google's AI autonomously hacked three companies. Cue the...