Writing

Pat Grady recorded 15 minutes on AI for one of Sequoia's investors, and his partners told him to publish it. My summary, slide by slide, with frames from the video.

Writing code got cheap. Deciding what should happen didn't. A forty-year-old ambiguity that broke half the internet, two cases of my own, and what's left to do when someone else writes the code.

Prompt, skill, routine, tool, agent: underneath, they're the same thing. What changes isn't what it is, but how it's packaged, when it runs, and what permissions it has.

How to apply Progressive Disclosure to reduce costs, improve accuracy, and keep humans in control when building with LLMs.

AI democratized the tools, not the judgment. The differential isn't who can do more things, but who can take responsibility for making them go well.

In meetings without a clear leader, whoever talks most tends to take over. Not because they have better ideas, but because we confuse verbal fluency with leadership capacity.

Why does an AI that starts perfectly begin making errors in long tasks? The context becomes a mirror, and past errors get reinforced.

Writing code is no longer an artisanal craft. We are the orchestrators. But final responsibility still rests with us.

Tools like Cursor have become semi-senior developers working for $60-70 per month. What does that mean for the industry, teams, and those just starting out.

How to add passwordless login (email code) to an already-working Next.js app with Auth0, without breaking anything and without custom screens.

A simple, powerful convention for organizing React components. Twelve blocks that reduce reading time, ease debugging, and accelerate development.