You're not ambitious enough

The tools stopped holding you back months ago. The only thing left is you.

Jul 21 • Job Nijenhuis

What is ownership?

When AI writes the words, ownership lives in the decisions, not the keystrokes.

Jul 16 • Job Nijenhuis

May 2026

Decision: FAQ

A small story about a model that wrote down the right answer, then chose a different one.

May 19 • Job Nijenhuis

April 2026

The minimal change trap

Coding agents are trained to make minimal edits. That's great for building. For refactoring, it's a quiet disaster.

Apr 28 • Job Nijenhuis

The human test

When "pretending you know nothing," shows you know a lot more than you're letting on

Apr 22 • Job Nijenhuis

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Specialists built the last decade. Generalists are building this one.

Nobody warns you that becoming more capable can feel like losing something.

Apr 15 • Adrie Smith Ahmad

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The curse of being early

Turns out when you build-build-build, you have to be prepared to tear it all down.

Apr 14 • Job Nijenhuis

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Today was a good day for Claude

I gave Claude a server and told it to build whatever it wanted. The result will have me thinking for a while.

Apr 9 • Job Nijenhuis

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To an LLM, every question is a leading question

How to fight the "yes machine" in every LLM

Apr 7 • Job Nijenhuis

March 2026

-Ewarning: The Uno Reverse card for compiler errors

I taught clang to fix my code instead of yelling at me

Mar 24 • Job Nijenhuis

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45 minutes. No code. Never touching an HTML email signature again.

A love letter to the task that belongs to no one, gets assigned to everyone, and has haunted me across multiple jobs.

Mar 18 • Adrie Smith Ahmad

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February 2026

The 1% no one is compounding

No one is compounding their AI interactions. And right now, that’s the single highest-leverage thing you can compound.

Feb 17 • Job Nijenhuis