Latest essay · October 2026 · 6 min
Now it is our turn
Agents now reverse engineer closed code for the price of a weekend. The illustrators and the mathematicians got here first. What is dissolving is not a licence. It is the deal that protected skilled work. Read the essayThe archive
Essays on code, quality, and the choices we make while building with AI.
A first calibration
I ran my own AI code reviewer against 2,740 security tests with five models, from a $52 cloud run to two models under my desk. The one that found the most was also wrong the most.
God Does Not Play Dice. We Built Software That Does.
Einstein lost the argument about a probabilistic universe. Software has just lost the same one. What that costs, what scale buys back, and where the road forks.
Europe's Fable: The Off Switch Was Never Ours
A US export order switched off Fable for all of Europe over a weekend. Europe already started its own answer, and is funding it like a research grant.
Before it gets a number
CitrixBleed 3 is the third memory overread of its kind in three years. CVEs label what got hacked. CWEs are what was sitting in the code.
The Decision Is Already Ours
Two American companies are giving opposite answers to what AI is for. China has a third. Europe is silent. The decision belongs to the rest of us.
Local Models Are Not Frontier. They Are Enough.
Five labs shipped open-weight models in ten days. The frontier keeps moving but the floor moves faster. What local models are now enough for, and what they are not.
Your Dependencies Are Someone Else's Attack Surface
Supply chain attacks have escalated sharply in fifteen months. Shai-Hulud, Axios, TeamPCP, and what you can do about it.
Project Glasswing Has a Blind Spot. It's You.
Glasswing gave 50 organizations access to AI-powered vulnerability discovery. What about the other 33 million developers?
Introducing quodeq
Why we built an AI-powered code quality compass, and what makes it different from static analysis.