A deep conversation on the biggest challenges of developing with AI – while trying not to mention the phrase “AI” once.

The actor model gives you safety and scale, but operations across multiple actors turn into painful protocols. Behaviour-Oriented Concurrency keeps the strengths and replaces the protocols with a single keyword.

I remember the before times.

Until now, only a couple people knew this story.

How a talk a friend pointed me to became a decade of simpatico with Will Wilson, and how that turned into a job at Antithesis.

The pull request was never the quality gate we pretend it is. A tight loop on the trunk is the real thing, and that’s truer now than it’s ever been.

The way to do something seemingly impossible is to stop looking at it and take the next small step.

Non-locality is fine. Non-locality your tooling can’t surface is the problem.

Claude ain’t Janks, but it will have to do.

Slowing down isn’t just allowed. It’s the faster path.