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Thoughts
On recruiting, technology, and building great teams.
CVs are full of shit
DHH recently made a point that is very close to my heart - that all your CVs are full of shit. Every time I meet someone who thinks their CV is read carefully and taken seriously, …
AI Application Engineering: The Way of the Tao
There's a moment every AI Application Engineer knows. You've crafted the perfect prompt. Tested it fifty times. It works beautifully. Then you deploy it, and the AI decides to writ…
Software is Literature now
Software is literature now. I'm not being metaphorical. Your IDE is a chat window. Your compiler is a conversationalist. Every interaction with AI is an act of writing. We're not c…
The new agentic Internet
Over the last week or so, something has shifted in the state-of-the-art in AI, agents and vibe coding and that is namely this - This shit works now yo! For me this realisation came…
New domain name - svsrecruiting.com
Hello all, so after a year of experimenting on recruiting I've decided that I love it and will continue to do this for the foreseeable future. And so to mark this moment of clarity…
The Founding Engineer
For the past week I have been at AltSpace's annual indie-hacking retreat and it has been a real eye opener. AltSpace hosts this event once a year, bringing together a few dozen ind…
SaaS is dead. Long live SaaS
Every few years, technology observers proclaim the death of a major paradigm. "Email is dead," they'd say, before watching usage climb to new heights. "Personal computers are finis…
Falling completely in love with emacs again!
Some weeks ago, I reluctantly bought a Cursor subscription. Reluctantly because it was quite obvious that emacs was dead and was nowhere in the AI coding game. So Cursor it was and…
The RenAIssance Man
The Great Rebundling: Why AI is Setting You Free I love how every time a new model drops, everyone on twitter loses their shit. It's an understandable reaction tbh. You're sitting …
On language
The history of the world is replete with languages that no longer exist. 90% of Native American tongues have no living speakers. The rest are all moribund. In our lifetimes we will…