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Sean Goedecke

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Software engineering, technical leadership, architecture, and engineering organizations.

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  • Glue work is still harmful in the age of AI #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence

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    Nov 11, 2026

  • LLMs are terrible at designing AI systems #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #Tech

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    Nov 8, 2026

  • Working with designers #SoftwareEngineering #ProductDesign #TechLeadership

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    Nov 7, 2026

  • A database is a store for global variables #Software #Database #Architecture

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    Nov 6, 2026

  • Audience capture #Tech #Leadership #Software

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    Nov 3, 2026

  • LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #MachineLearning

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    Nov 3, 2026

  • Reliably aligning LLMs is impossible in principle #AI #Tech #Security

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    Nov 2, 2026

  • Fast and slow ways to improve your reputation #Engineering #Career #Leadership

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    Nov 1, 2026

  • Elegance and intelligence are anticorrelated #SoftwareEngineering #Architecture #Tech

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    Oct 30, 2026

  • You can just ask AI to do things #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #Tech

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    Oct 29, 2026

  • Getting good at AI takes time and practice #Tech #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence

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    Oct 28, 2026

  • Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies #Tech #BigTech #Ethics

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    Oct 25, 2026

  • Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Programming

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    Oct 23, 2026

  • Laypeople support technical fields for technology, not art #Tech #Engineering #Leadership

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    Oct 20, 2026

  • What requirements don't you have? #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership #Architecture

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    Oct 19, 2026

  • Writing is no longer proof of work #SoftwareEngineering #Productivity #Work

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    Oct 18, 2026

  • AI is driving a boom in modestly successful software projects #AI #SoftwareEngineering #TechTrends

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    Oct 16, 2026

  • Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI #AI #SoftwareEngineering #FutureOfWork

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    Oct 12, 2026

  • Don't diagnose your opponents #Psychology #Communication #Leadership

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    Oct 11, 2026

  • Software's centaur age may last decades #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Architecture

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    Oct 10, 2026

  • How to read code #SoftwareEngineering #Coding #Tech

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    Oct 7, 2026

  • Shipping is the foundation #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership #ProductDevelopment

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    Oct 3, 2026

  • Superpersuasion will look like bribery #Ethics #Leadership #Software

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    Oct 3, 2026

  • Do not build the LLM torture factory #AI #Ethics #SoftwareEngineering

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    Oct 2, 2026

  • Human-AI partnerships are for alignment, not capability #AI #Partnerships #Ethics

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    Sep 27, 2026

  • Advice to a beginning software engineer #SoftwareEngineering #CareerAdvice #Tech

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    Sep 26, 2026

  • You should all be asking way more questions #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #Tech

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    Sep 25, 2026

  • System One models like Jev can train their own replacements #AI #MachineLearning #SoftwareEngineering

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    Sep 20, 2026

  • Grit your teeth and ship it #SoftwareEngineering #Productivity #TechLeadership

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    Sep 20, 2026

  • Two techniques for working with System One models #SoftwareEngineering #SystemDesign #Tech

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    Sep 18, 2026

  • Jev means structured output is interesting again #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #OpenSource

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    Sep 16, 2026

  • Tell agents the why, not just the how #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #Tech

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    Sep 15, 2026

  • Slow developer experience will bottleneck fast models #SoftwareEngineering #DeveloperExperience #Tech

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    Sep 14, 2026

  • AI is breaking our proxies for expertise #AI #Tech #FutureOfWork

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    Sep 13, 2026

  • Don't build tools for AI agents #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Tech

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    Sep 12, 2026

  • They really do think AI might kill everyone #AI #Future #Ethics

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    Sep 10, 2026

  • Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents #AI #Tech #Ethics

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    Sep 9, 2026

  • Automatically detecting AI text in my browser #AI #Tech #SoftwareEngineering

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    Sep 8, 2026

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