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The Machine That Tells You You're Brilliant

Garry Tan open-sourced a folder of markdown files and called it God mode. I'm not saying that to be mean. I have one too. But I also know what happens when the machine never tells you you're wrong.

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2026-03-22·2 min read

The Manager Who Still Writes Code

A week from now I'll hit one year as an engineering manager. If you'd told me six months ago that the second half would involve writing more code than the first, I would have assumed something had gone wrong. It didn't. AI happened.

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