Tag: software engineering

AI Systems

The Productivity Placebo: METR’s AI Coding Study

METR's randomized trial found AI tools made experienced developers 19% slower while they believed they were 24% faster. The perception gap demands investigation.

Apr 13, 2026

AI Systems

Prompt Patterns as Architectural Contracts

Treating prompt templates as versioned architectural contracts reduced production incidents by 72%. Prompts deserve the same engineering rigor as API specifications.

Mar 20, 2026

Philosophy

Camus, Sisyphus, and the CI/CD Pipeline

The CI/CD pipeline is Sisyphus's hill. Meaning comes not from the permanence of your deployments but from the consciousness you bring to each push.

Mar 16, 2026