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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.

Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.

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Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
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April 19, 2026

Learning to work with agents, not around them

Products launching from solo indie hackers who don’t know how to code isn’t rare anymore. It’s the new normal. With this generation of new builders, it means creativity and expertise are no longer bottlenecked by technical skill. That’s a huge...

April 6, 2026

Your AI Agent Will Eventually Do Something Stupid: A Guide to AI Security 101

As the Director of Alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, Summer Yue’s job is keeping AI aligned with human values. Before that, she was at Google DeepMind and Scale AI. If anyone would know how to keep an AI agent in...

April 6, 2026

Momentum vs. Alignment Tax: Hidden Costs in Your LLM Sessions

Once I was in an interview, and I was asked what motivated me. My answer was momentum. And maybe that’s why working with AI can be so engaging sometimes. And maybe it’s also why it could be so frustrating. When...

March 26, 2026

How AI Tools Talk to Each Other

Part of the AI Foundations series. New to AI? Start with AI Vocabulary 101 and AI 102 before diving in here.

March 18, 2026

AI 102: From Vocabulary to Systems

If you read the vocabulary post, you know what a prompt is. You know the difference between a model and a model family. You’ve got the words now. This post is about what to do with them.

March 18, 2026

AI Vocabulary 101

I’ve been having a lot of conversations with non-tech people recently about AI. What I keep running into is the same pattern: smart, curious people who are genuinely trying to understand what’s happening, but who don’t have the vocabulary to...

March 4, 2026

AI Has Entered the AI Development Loop

It feels like we crossed a recursive threshold in February and the internet yawned.