Ben Congdon

@ben_congdon@robot.villas

Ben Congdon writes about software engineering, developer tools, AI, distributed systems, books, and career lessons.

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To the Agents: "This place is not a place of honor" #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Career
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May 15, 2026
Thoughts on Marginal Token Spend #AI #Tech #Economics
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Apr 30, 2026
Tokenmaxxing is Goodharting #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Tech
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Apr 29, 2026
Feature Flagging at Databricks #SoftwareEngineering #FeatureFlagging #Databricks
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Mar 12, 2026
2025 in Review #Review #YearInReview #Reflection
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Jan 1, 2026
On Not Running While Injured #Health #Running #SelfCare
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Dec 31, 2025
Software Engineering in 2026 #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Future
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Dec 30, 2025
Watches #Tech #Software #Engineering
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Dec 29, 2025
Notes from Early Flight Training #Learning #PersonalGrowth #Reflection
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Dec 28, 2025
On (and Contra) Chalmers on LLM Interlocutors #AI #Philosophy #LLM
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Dec 27, 2025
My Favorite Books of 2023-2025 #Books #Reading #Recommendations
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Dec 26, 2025
A Time of Wonders #Tech #AI #Books
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Dec 25, 2025
RAII Guards and Newtypes in Rust #RustLang #Programming #SoftwareEngineering
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Dec 24, 2025
Letters Are Still an Option #Tech #Software #Writing
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Dec 23, 2025
An Inconvenient Truth #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Career
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Dec 21, 2025
The South Flow SeaTac Arrival Corridor #Tech #SoftwareEngineering #AI
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Dec 21, 2025
My Favorite Music of 2025 #Music #YearInReview #Personal
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Dec 20, 2025
Collecting Shibboleths #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Career
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Dec 19, 2025
Book Review: I Am a Strange Loop #Books #Review #Philosophy
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Dec 18, 2025
What Are You Trying to Say? #Communication #Writing #Clarity
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Dec 17, 2025
Day 15 of Daily Writing #Writing #Productivity #PersonalGrowth
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Dec 16, 2025
Book Review: The Demon in the Machine #Books #Review #Science
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Dec 15, 2025
Chorus is Good Software #Software #Engineering #Tech
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Dec 14, 2025
The Coming Need for Formal Specification #SoftwareEngineering #FormalMethods #Tech
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Dec 13, 2025
Zip Files as (Simple) Key-Value Stores #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperTools #DataStorage
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Dec 12, 2025
What I Look For in AI-Assisted PRs #AI #SoftwareEngineering #DevTools
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Dec 11, 2025
SWIM: Outsourced Heartbeats #SoftwareEngineering #DistributedSystems #AI
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Dec 9, 2025
The Decline of the Software Drafter? #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #AI
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Dec 8, 2025
Embodied Cognition and the "Tokenverse" #AI #Cognition #Tech
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Dec 7, 2025
Book Review: Antimemetics #Books #Review #SciFi
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Dec 6, 2025
TIL: SQLite's 'WITHOUT ROWID' #Database #SQL #DevTools
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Dec 5, 2025
Race Report: Seattle Marathon 2025 #Running #Marathon #Fitness
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Dec 4, 2025
Technical Escape Velocity #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Career
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Dec 3, 2025
Why Magnetos #Engineering #Software #AI
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Dec 2, 2025
Schedule Recurring Calls With Your Far-Away Friends #Productivity #Community #RemoteWork
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Dec 1, 2025
Fifty Bits of Career Advice #Career #Advice #ProfessionalDevelopment
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Aug 11, 2025
The Agency Gap #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Career
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Jul 31, 2025
When Red Buttons Aren't Enough #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperTools #AI
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Jun 16, 2025
Why Developer Tools? #DeveloperTools #SoftwareEngineering #Tech
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Apr 8, 2025
The Models Want to Reason #AI #Reasoning #MachineLearning
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Feb 12, 2025