The Long Tail of Bespoke Software: What Gets Built When the Marginal Cost of Code Drops
The Long Tail of Bespoke Software: What Gets Built When the Marginal Cost of Code Drops

When AI agents drop the marginal cost of writing code to near zero, the most interesting first-order effect is bespoke automation that was never economically viable before. Here is what that looks like in practice.

May 5, 2026 Read
Who Wrote This Code? Authorship and the Specification Crisis in AI-Assisted Development
Who Wrote This Code? Authorship and the Specification Crisis in AI-Assisted Development

When a 200-word prompt produces 500 lines of code, who 'wrote' it? Code review becomes the new authoring, and software engineering's specification crisis is finally visible.

May 4, 2026 Read
A Taxonomy of Claude Code Prompt Shapes (and the Anti-Patterns That Waste Tokens)
A Taxonomy of Claude Code Prompt Shapes (and the Anti-Patterns That Waste Tokens)

Six Claude Code prompt shapes that work, plus the anti-patterns that waste tokens. Generate, refactor, debug, explain, orchestrate, review — with one real example of each.

May 3, 2026 Read
Is Claude Code a 5th-Generation Language? What "Just Describe What You Want" Really Means in 2026
Is Claude Code a 5th-Generation Language? What "Just Describe What You Want" Really Means in 2026

Claude Code lets you describe software in plain English and watch working code appear. That is the textbook definition of a 5GL — but the agentic layer on top is something the original 5GL idea never imagined.

May 1, 2026 Read
How I Built a Self-Hosted Personal Finance Dashboard With Claude Code
How I Built a Self-Hosted Personal Finance Dashboard With Claude Code

I built a self-hosted personal finance dashboard in 12 days with Claude Code, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Tiller, and Docker. Here is the architecture, data pipeline, and what actually worked.

April 11, 2026 Read
Graphify Review: I Tried It on My Codebase With Claude Code
Graphify Review: I Tried It on My Codebase With Claude Code

I tried Graphify, the open-source codebase knowledge graph tool for Claude Code and other AI coding assistants. Here is what worked, what broke, and why I think the idea is right even though it did not become part of ...

April 11, 2026 Read
Anthropic Mythos: Why Everyone Is Freaking Out About Project Glasswing
Anthropic Mythos: Why Everyone Is Freaking Out About Project Glasswing

Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview is powerful enough to find and exploit serious software vulnerabilities, but the bigger story is not just the model itself. Project Glasswing is also a reminder that AI companies h...

April 11, 2026 Read
Neurophos and the Case for Computing With Light
Neurophos and the Case for Computing With Light

Neurophos is building photonic AI chips that aim to reduce the power and scaling limits of modern inference. If its approach works, the impact could reshape the economics of AI deployment well beyond datacenters.

March 8, 2026 Read
What Are 5th Generation Programming Languages?
What Are 5th Generation Programming Languages?

A 5th generation programming language (5GL) lets you describe what you want instead of how to do it. This guide covers all five programming language generations with examples, from machine code to AI-powered coding to...

February 7, 2023 Read