Claude helped me write this. Mostly quotes and fact-checking. I catch myself wanting to stress the “mostly,” and that is the whole subject of this essay. It’s September 2026. By September 2027 I don’t expect to be using Claude to write blog posts. Because I don’t expect there to be blog posts by me to write. I won’t be a writer. I won’t be a programmer either. And I don’t know what a man is for, after that. Солярис (1972) by Андрей Тарковский In 1908, Alfred Adler suggested that contributing to others (a.k.a. Gemeinschaftsgefühl) is what gives the individual a sense of worth. Later…
Management gurus keep saying everyone must own the business result. BCG wants every company to build an “ownership mindset” at all levels. Each employee must feel responsible for the firm’s outcomes. Patrick Lencioni, in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, calls “inattention to results” the worst sin a team can commit. He wants us to give up our own goals for the shared number. They want the bottom line to belong to all of us. I disagree. Fanny and Alexander (1982) by Ingmar Bergman Nothing burns like being judged for what you didn’t do. Aristotle held that “on voluntary passions and actions…
Claude Code programs better than me but with no taste, so I train it to feel my sense of code beauty through a CLAUDE.md manifesto and custom style checkers.
Between two adjacent lines, indentation may grow by one unit only, but may shrink by any number of units — a rule that resolves most code formatting disputes.
Instead of writing code comments that decay and mislead, let LLMs generate documentation on-demand and fail the build when code is too obscure for them to explain.
In 1995, Brendan Eich was hired by Netscape and asked to create a language for their HTML browser. Rumors say, he designed Mocha in 10 days, later renamed to LiveScript, and then to JavaScript. It was planned to make it similar to Scheme, a LISP-syntax language. Instead, to please the crowd of C++/Java coders, it was made syntactically similar to Java. In 2008, Brendan made a tragic mistake: he donated $1,000 in support of Californian anti-gay marriage law. In 2014, he joined Mozilla as a CEO and the crowd remembered his anti-diversity gesture. He had to step down and founded Brave Software,…
Sales reps and programmers can either fight external obstacles to earn their pay, or convince you, the founder, to pay for their time regardless of results; make the internal path harder.
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