Sean Goedecke

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You have to beat the models at something #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership
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Aug 30, 2026
Selling out #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Career
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Aug 28, 2026
You should never be angry at work #WorkplaceCulture #EmotionalIntelligence #Professionalism
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Aug 22, 2026
Readers can't identify watermarked AI text #AI #Watermarking #TextAnalysis
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Aug 21, 2026
Good writing is obvious, not original #Writing #Communication #SoftwareEngineering
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Aug 19, 2026
Help peer #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership #OpenSource
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Aug 18, 2026
AI text watermarking is not a big deal #AI #Tech #Security
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Aug 16, 2026
No, local models will not win #AI #MachineLearning #Tech
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Aug 11, 2026
Advanced AI sycophancy #AI #Tech #Ethics
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Aug 10, 2026
I got an email about resistance #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Leadership
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Aug 9, 2026
How to keep thinking #Thinking #Learning #Productivity
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Aug 7, 2026
Giving and taking credit in big tech companies #Tech #Leadership #Career
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Aug 2, 2026
AI models need moral support to make discoveries #AI #MachineLearning #Ethics
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Jul 31, 2026
You don't have to be smart if you can think clearly #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #Productivity
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Jul 29, 2026
LLMs reward expertise #AI #SoftwareEngineering #Tech
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Jul 24, 2026
Powerful AIs might escape containment by releasing themselves as open-weight models #AI #OpenSource #Security
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Jul 23, 2026
Impro is a handbook for running a cult #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #Tech
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Jul 19, 2026
Overtraining as the path to human-like AI #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning
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Jul 18, 2026
What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers? #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Career
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Jul 14, 2026
In defense of not understanding your codebase #SoftwareEngineering #Code #TechLeadership
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Jul 11, 2026
Blog about things you don't understand yet #SoftwareEngineering #Learning #Tech
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Jul 7, 2026
C2PA only works if everything is signed #Tech #Security #OpenSource
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Jul 6, 2026
Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove #AI #Security #Tech
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Jul 2, 2026
Saying the obvious thing #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership #Architecture
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Jun 27, 2026
AI inference is obviously profitable #AI #Tech #Business
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Jun 26, 2026
AI GPUs probably live longer than three years #AI #Hardware #Tech
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Jun 15, 2026
Doing nothing at work #Productivity #WorkLife #Career
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Jun 8, 2026
Working with product managers #SoftwareEngineering #ProductManagement #Leadership
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Jun 8, 2026
Anti-AI nostalgia and the cult of the past #Tech #AI #Culture
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Jun 4, 2026
Weird projects I shipped with AI #AI #Software #Projects
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Jun 1, 2026
Build agents, not pipelines #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership #DevOps
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May 31, 2026
The famous o3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #ProblemSolving
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May 21, 2026
Prompts are technical debt too #SoftwareEngineering #TechDebt #Architecture
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May 20, 2026
The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon #Engineering #Software #Leadership
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May 18, 2026
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026 #AI #SoftwareEngineering #FutureTechLeadership
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May 17, 2026
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again #AI #LLM #Tech
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May 16, 2026
AI datacenters in space do not have a cooling problem #AI #Space #Datacenters
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May 13, 2026