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.

8 years as a content expert. Then AI happened. On losing a craft identity and building something new in its place: taste, range, and a Whack-a-Mole…

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

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 and why simple questions may be misleading you.

Apr 7 • Job Nijenhuis

March 2026

-Ewarning: The Uno Reverse card for compiler errors

What if your compiler fixed your code for you? Learn how an AI-driven Clang experiment auto-corrects errors—and why it might backfire.

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

Write less code, get more done

What happens when you measure value not by keystrokes, but by leverage? Short story about dropping the hero complex to build more, faster.

Feb 10 • Job Nijenhuis

January 2026

Notes from three years of building Neople

What building an AI company taught us about timing, trust, and reality

Jan 13 • Bas Ploeg and Hans de Penning, CEO @ Neople

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