How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI?

I have to begin by warning you about the content in this piece; while I won’t be dwelling on any specifics, this will necessarily be a broad discussion about...

Launch it 3 times

I wanted to share one of the bits of advice that I find myself most frequently giving to teams when they’re working on a product, or founders who are creating...

Coding agents as the new compilers

In each successive generation of code creation thus far, we’ve abstracted away the prior generation over time. Usually, only a small percentage of coders still...

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

Ten years ago I wrote that there is no “technology industry” . It’s more true than ever. There is no “tech”. There’s no such thing as “a FAANG company”. There...

New York Tech at 30: the Crossroads

This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary of a nebulous idea described as “Silicon Alley”, the...

A Codeless Ecosystem, or hacking beyond vibe coding

There's been a remarkable leap forward in the ability to orchestrate coding bots, making it possible for ordinary creators to command dozens of AI bots to build...

Why We Speak

I've been working in and around the technology industry for a long time. Depending on how you count, it's 20 or 30 years. (I first started getting paid to put...

Codeless: From idea to software

Something actually new? There’s finally been a big leap forward in coding tech unlocked by AI — not just “it’s doing some work for me”, but “we couldn’t do this...

Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be

When Wikipedia launched 25 years ago today , I heard about it almost immediately, because the Internet was small back then, and I thought “Well… good luck to...

How to know if that job will crush your soul

Last week, we talked about one huge question, “ How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? ” That’s pretty specific to this current moment,...

How Markdown took over the world

Nearly every bit of the high-tech world, from the most cutting-edge AI systems at the biggest companies, to the casual scraps of code cobbled together by...

500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released

One of the key points I repeated when talking about the state of the tech industry yesterday was the salient fact that half a million tech workers have been...