Software
- The 4-Hour Ceiling: Why AI-Assisted Work Has a Daily Limit
4 April 2026: Quiet day -- the thesis holds. The post continues to track the emerging consensus that productive AI-assisted coding maxes out at roughly four hours per day.
- The Emerging Mental Health Crisis Among Software Engineers
4 Apr -- Quiet day, thesis holds; the post continues tracking the mental health crisis unfolding across software engineering as AI reshapes professional identity and working conditions.
- The 4-Hour Ceiling: Why AI-Assisted Work Has a Daily Limit
26 March 2026: Mario Zechner names agent error-compounding without learning as a structural argument for mandatory human oversight -- reinforcing the cognitive debt section with a precise mechanism.
- The Emerging Mental Health Crisis Among Software Engineers
26 Mar -- Quiet day, thesis holds. The core argument stands: AI is amplifying burnout, fragmenting professional identity, and accelerating a transition engineers are navigating without adequate support.
- Precision Isn't Dead, But You Need to Know Where It Lives
Steve Krouse argues that vibe coding has hard limits because natural language is ambiguous and precision still matters. He's right -- but the more useful question isn't whether code survives, it's which parts of a system actually require precise specification and which parts never did.