Geoff Huntley
Agentic development economics
Software engineer documenting the collapse in the cost of agentic software development.
Recent activity
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A couple of months ago in Miami, I sat down and dumped my brains. Here's the interview...
Some personal hot takes from AI: Engineer Miami follows... 1. Software development is a dead-end profession because anyone can be a software developer now. 2. Anyone can use Cursor or any other tool and generate code. Being a coder and being a software engineer are different. 3. Computers used
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cognitive security
This is a follow-up from my previous post about AI as an economic weapon. If you haven't read it, I suggest that you do before proceeding. AI as economic warfare People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I’
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AI as economic warfare
People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I'm very supportive of them. But I can't help pondering about the following... Open source always was and always will be a financial weapon by design. You see, one of the
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porting software has been trivial for a while now. here’s how you do it.
This one is short and sweet. if you want to port a codebase from one language to another here’s the approach: Run a ralph loop which compresses all tests into /specs/ .md which looks similar to “study every file in tests/ * using separate subagents and document in
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A couple of days ago, I sat down with Vivek Bharathi and dumped my brains. Here's the interview...
Below you'll find an AI transcription of everything we riffed about. Key distinction: Software Development vs. Software Engineering: Software development (typing code, prompting LLMs) is accelerating massively and becoming ubiquitous—anyone (e.g., a hairdresser using Cursor) can now be a "developer" due to abundant
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a sneak preview behind an embedded software factory. I suspect rapid application dev is back
Hey folks, I'm currently over in SF. For the last couple of weeks, I've been cryptically tweeting about a hidden mode within something I've been building on called Latent Patterns (see below), and over the last couple of days, I've started opening
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Software development now costs less than than the wage of a minimum wage worker
Hey folks, the last year I've been pondering about this and doing game theory around the discovery of Ralph, how good the models are getting and how that's going to intersect with society. What follows is a cold, stark write-up of how I think it&
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teleporting into the future and robbing yourself of retirement projects
I'm going to make this a really quick one because this is doing the rounds, and whilst I've tweeted about it, it's time to dig in. Pragmatic Engineer's @GergelyOrosz is on a "secret email list" of agentic AI coders, and
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don’t waste your back pressure
I am fortunate to be surrounded by folks who listen and the link below post will go down as a seminal reading for people interested in AI context engineering. A simple convo between mates - well Moss translated it into words and i’ve been waiting for it to come
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