The Junior Engineer's Year
The bottom rung of the American software-engineering career ladder, after thirty years of expansion that produced a …
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2026-05-15
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AI
— Machine Learning, Mostly On Purpose
Applied AI work — LoRA training, agent tooling, model-adjacent pipelines, and the occasional post where the AI is the topic rather than the helper.
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AI at the Back of the Bank
The deposit operations centre of a large American commercial bank — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, U.S. …
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2026-05-15
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AI in the Slaughterhouse
The kill floor of a modern American beef packing plant moves at a speed that does not lend itself to deliberation. A …
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2026-05-14
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AI at 3 a.m.
Three in the morning is not, by any usual reckoning, a productive hour. The work day is long over, the next is far off; …
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2026-05-14
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The Chinese AI Trajectory
This is the fifth and final post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. …
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2026-05-13
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The Meta AI Trajectory
This is the fourth post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series …
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2026-05-13
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The Google DeepMind Trajectory
This is the third post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The first …
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2026-05-13
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The OpenAI Trajectory
This is the second post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The first …
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2026-05-13
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The Anthropic Trajectory
This is the first post in a series cataloguing predictions about the major AI labs through the end of 2028. The series …
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2026-05-13
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