Vol. II · No. 259
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026
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TechLife

Sean Goedecke.

Software engineering and personal reflections.

Recent essays

30 of 81

Jev means structured output is interesting again

Tell agents the why, not just the how

Slow developer experience will bottleneck fast models

AI is breaking our proxies for expertise

Don't build tools for AI agents

They really do think AI might kill everyone

Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents

Automatically detecting AI text in my browser

Radical responsibility means treating people like tools

How to protect yourself from workslop

You have to beat the models at something

Selling out

You should never be angry at work

Readers can't identify watermarked AI text

Good writing is obvious, not original

Help peer

AI text watermarking is not a big deal

No, local models will not win

Advanced AI sycophancy

I got an email about resistance

How to keep thinking

Giving and taking credit in big tech companies

AI models need moral support to make discoveries

You don't have to be smart if you can think clearly

LLMs reward expertise

Powerful AIs might escape containment by releasing themselves as open-weight models

Impro is a handbook for running a cult

Overtraining as the path to human-like AI

What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers?

In defense of not understanding your codebase