July 8, 2026 · 11 min read
A Year Without Writing Code
The studies can't agree on whether AI made me faster. After a year of building with it instead of typing, the honest answer is that the craft didn't change, but where my time goes did: less typing, more guiding and reviewing, far more in parallel.
Jake Arntson
June 19, 2026 · 6 min read
The end of the E2E tax
The economics of end-to-end testing flipped, and a lot of teams haven't internalized it yet.
Dylan McGuire
June 16, 2026 · 13 min read
How AI Coding Actually Works
AI coding feels like one dial: you type, it answers. It's really a console of levers (the model, context, memory, custom agents and skills) you control, and your results track how many you operate.
Jake Arntson