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The watermark a screenshot removes

11 minute read Published: 2026-08-14

Claude now marks its output with watermarks and C2PA metadata to meet the EU AI Act. The marking is real and useful, and Anthropic's own documentation explains how little it can prove.

Features are not quality

9 minute read Published: 2026-08-13

A developer with 20 years of experience quit AI coding tools entirely. What stuck with me was not the decision but one line about what actually makes software good.

When two solutions are the same, which one do you pick?

6 minute read Published: 2026-06-05

Two outputs solve a problem the same way, but one extracts repeated validation into a small helper. I look at whether my preference for the tidier one is real value or just taste.

When nothing feels fun any more

4 minute read Published: 2026-04-26

On the growing emptiness toward hobbies and joy, and what might be causing it. Not a solution post, just observations from someone who feels it too.

Stacked PRs go native in GitHub, and what that means for AI-assisted work

7 minute read Published: 2026-04-19

GitHub is bringing stacked pull requests in natively. A look at what changes, what does not, and why the workflow matters more now that AI agents are writing a lot of the diffs.