Today
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. October 9, 2025 Simon Højberg: But I profoundly do not want to be merely an operator or code reviewer: taking a backseat to the fun and...
Yesterday
- So tell the story you want to be true. Eventually, it will be....
This week
- Many software engineers are fatalistic about company politics. They believe that it’s pointless to get involved, because1: Technical decisions are often made for completely selfish reasons that cannot be influenced by a well-meaning engineer Powerful stakeholders are typically...
Last week
- AI code-writing tools make it possible for more people to write code than ever before. On my current team, I’ve seen PRs opened by engineers, designers, marketers, managers, and product people. There’s something special about empowering more people to build and fix things. That...
- You are a software engineer. Don't become a prompt refiner....
Two weeks ago
- Using AI agents correctly is a process of reviewing code. If you’re good at reviewing code, you’ll be good at using tools like Claude Code, Codex, or the…
About a month ago
- Every time I go to teams and start talking about process mapping and standard operating procedures (SOP) I notice an undeniable amount of unease like it just got a few degrees colder. What people hear isn’t “we’re here to understand your work and make it smoother.” “We’re here...
- Leading a new effort at work meant to transform the company? May you last long enough to become the villain....
- One of the biggest mistakes is shielding people from the pain they need to learn. Firing People I first became a manager when I was 26. I first had to fire someone when I was 26. I spent the whole week anxious. The night before I couldn’t sleep. On the day of the firing I was...
- I’m coming up on 20 years of professional web development and I still don’t get it sometimes. I tend to measure myself or view work productivity through the lens of “How much code did I write?” and that does a great disservice to myself and what I do. There’s a lot more to the...
about 1 month ago
- In my startup days, we often had these dead marches where we had to implement a massive new feature in time before some kind of trade show happened. We worked long hours and even weekends to make it happen so the boss and a project manager could go to Vegas for the trade show....
- Srijan Singh pinged me on LinkedIn earlier today with a question: I’m in my early career as a backend dev at IBM, and something I often wonder about is choosing the right path: whether to stick with a big company and learn deeply, or test myself in a startup environment (remote...
about 2 months ago
- A Cheat Sheet for Job Titles in the AI Ecosystem Even when you live and breathe AI, the job titles can feel like a moving target. I can only imagine how mystifying they must be to everyone else. Because the field is actively evolving, the language we use keeps changing. Brand...
- Let’s get one thing straight. If you’ve been listening to the so-called “tech futurists” and clueless CEOs, you’ve probably been fed the same line: AI is going to replace every entry-level developer. It’s a hot take for a podcast, a great headline for a tech bro’s newsletter,...
- Anyone who has worked closely with me, or followed on social media [, ], will have seen a post or comment to the effect of: Names and dates on docs. Every time. Don't forget. This is most often tacked onto design documents lacking inline attribution, and is phrased...
2 months ago
- I’ve been reading listening to Poor Charlie’s Almanack which is a compilation of talks by Charlie Munger, legendary vice-chairman at Berkshire Hathaway. One thing Charlie talks about is what he calls “sit on your ass investing” which is the opposite of day trading. Rather than...
- I was thinking this morning about how once you understand that your technology choices have security, performance, and accessibility considerations you become a much more boring developer. Acknowledging those obligations can sort of strips the fun out of programming, but we’re...
- Vibe code is legacy code by Steve Krouse...
- In the first few years of my career, I knew next to nothing about how to do good work in a tech company. The senior and staff engineers I worked with seemed…
3 months ago
- One of my mentors, Steven Caus, always taught me the concept of “the question behind the question”: The question we receive is not always the problem we need to solve. The concept is very easy. When someone comes to you with a question to do something, instead of blindly doing...
- A study into the workflows of experienced developers found that devs who use Cursor for bugfixes are around 19% slower than devs who use no AI tools at all. One possible takeaway is that AI tools can be harder work than we’re led to believe....
- TL;DR: You can preorder my new Atomic Design Certification Course for only $50! Why create an Atomic Design Certification Course? I’ve got big ambitious for this course, and I’m aiming to: Increase design system adoption For years, people (me included!) […]...
- Finally, relief: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is striked off for good - for the most part, that is....
- The Red Queen Scenarios in Sales & HR Are Fueled by AI Apps Yesterday a friend starting their job search asked for my take on today’s job market. In my note back, I noted that AI-assisted writing is making it even harder to stand out: AI has made it so easy for people to write...
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