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Yes, AI Could Kill Us All
A viral warning says AI could end humanity. That is a possibility, not a prediction. Here is what would have to go wrong and what could stop it.
- #AI
- #AI Safety
- #Software Engineering
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Software Engineering in a World Where Everything Needs an SR
How to protect your curiosity, growth, and potential when tools, access, experiments, and decisions are tightly controlled.
- #Software Engineering
- #Enterprise
- #Work
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Where Should AI Stop and Ordinary Code Begin?
A practical way to decide which parts of a system need AI judgment and which parts should remain predictable, testable code.
- #AI
- #Software Architecture
- #Engineering
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9 min read
Yes, AI Could Kill Us All
A viral warning says AI could end humanity. That is a possibility, not a prediction. Here is what would have to go wrong and what could stop it.
- #AI
- #AI Safety
- #Software Engineering
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You Were Hired to Write Code. Now You Own the Whole System.
When architecture, AWS, security, deployment, scaling, and production quietly land on your desk, the opportunity is real—but so are the boundaries you need.
- #Software Engineering
- #Architecture
- #Career
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The Excel File Nobody Mentioned
The automation followed every documented rule. Then an Excel file nobody had mentioned revealed how the work actually happened.
- #Automation
- #Work
- #Systems
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Software Engineering in a World Where Everything Needs an SR
How to protect your curiosity, growth, and potential when tools, access, experiments, and decisions are tightly controlled.
- #Software Engineering
- #Enterprise
- #Work
7 min read
Where Should AI Stop and Ordinary Code Begin?
A practical way to decide which parts of a system need AI judgment and which parts should remain predictable, testable code.
- #AI
- #Software Architecture
- #Engineering
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The Task System That Finally Got Work Out of My Head
After trying productivity apps, books, and advice that never stuck, I built a low-friction system with a pocket notebook and Excel.
- #Productivity
- #Software Engineering
- #Work
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How I Built 1Pager
From Chaos to Structure: Scaling PDF-to-XML Conversion Across 100+ Legal Formats
- #AI Agents
- #Copilot Studio
- #PowerApps
- #FastAPI
- #Python
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Hello World
Why I’m documenting the systems I build, the problems I encounter, and the lessons worth remembering.
- #Writing
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