Essays and ideas

Longer reading for when you want the why behind the method. They are personal essays, not evidence: the claims that carry weight are on the evidence page.

Essay In a line
The Threads A personal account of how Generative Specification came together
The Accidental Messenger On code written for a machine that a human has to read tomorrow
2,376 Years Einstein, the speed of light, and where intelligence lives
The Competence Trap Why the most experienced developers can be the most resistant to AI-assisted development
The Flea Game A small game for a daughter, and whether a program should be correct
The Narrative Playtest Four simulated players read a board game’s rules cold and found the last-mile bugs
The New Golden Century What Athens understood about leisure that the industrial era made us forget

More writing: Ambient Engineer.


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