Version History: The Three Paths: How Engineers Are Navigating the AI Transition

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DateSummary
27 Mar 202627 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
26 Mar 202626 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
25 Mar 202625 Mar 2026 – Amazon’s Q-linked e-commerce outage and 90-day reset adds a concrete institutional case study for the Path 1 judgment thesis and validates Path 3 quality concerns.
24 Mar 202624 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
23 Mar 202623 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026 – Two HN pieces add direct support: Krouse’s leaky abstractions argument validates Path 1 accumulated-context thesis; jry.io identity-as-narrative piece adds a new angle to the Path 3 identity architecture discussion.
21 Mar 202621 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
20 Mar 202620 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
19 Mar 202619 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
16 Mar 202616 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
15 Mar 202615 Mar 2026 – HN piece ‘Codegen is not productivity’ supports thesis that judgment beats output volume; validates Path 3 craft concerns and Path 1 calibrated skepticism framing.
14 Mar 202614 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
13 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
11 Mar 202611 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
10 Mar 202610 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
9 Mar 20269 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
8 Mar 20268 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
7 Mar 20267 Mar 2026 – Quiet day, thesis holds.
6 Mar 2026GPT-5.4 release adds pressure on Path 2 cold-start problem; Business Insider junior engineer piece raises whether skipping craft stage breaks the accumulated-context argument.
5 Mar 2026Alibaba Qwen exodus, Anthropic/Pentagon standoff, WEF compression data, and “context is the moat” framing.
4 Mar 2026Added Apple MacBook Neo (on-device path), Meta/LeCun “Beyond Language Modeling”, UniG2U-Bench unified vs specialised findings
2 Mar 2026Initial publication

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