jonathannen.com
Essays on AI, leverage, and organizations in the age of agents.
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2026 53
- Don't Run It Twice
- Start With One
- Four to Five Days
- The Importance of Backpressure
- One Hundred, and Fifty
- Never Pick It Up Twice
- Build Your Own Lightsaber
- More Attention, Not Less
- Views of the Same Thing
- Rent Versus Buy
- Twenty Twenty Sprints
- Anthropic's definition of safety is too narrow
- Vibe Designing
- Straight to Claude
- Context Windows for People
- Let It Rate
- Being A Better Manager in the AI Era
- People Systems Are the Next Codebase
- Resisting AI
- Make it impossible, or Make it safe
- Vibe Coding Dev Tools
- Early observations from Interviews with Engineering Teams Adopting AI
- The first PRs shipped by Customer Success.
- Battleship Prompts
- We're not vibe engineering
- A Demographic Collapse of Developers
- The Claude Dichotomy
- Clear Your AI Mind
- Tool Augmented Prompting
- Spin the Bottle Neck
- Still choose boring technology
- Do as I say not as I TODO
- AI Prompts are Wishes
- Skills I'm ceding to AI
- No agents, no plan, ship it
- Don't Believe the Hype
- Infinite Monkeys
- Know Your Models
- On choosing optimism?
- Faster horses and AI Productivity
- Sharpening the Axe (Branch)
- A Daily AI Chat
- Adaptive, not Compliance
- Skilled Humans in the Loop
- My Current AI Coding Workflow
- Your Brain on GPS
- The Mythical Machine-Month
- The 'Comment-Only' Prompt
- What does it take to build towards 100 PRs/day per engineer?
- Having a Senior Moment
- AI and abandonware
- The pace of AI tools
- Return to Office (or) Agent
2017 16
- What's the deal with Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Cash?
- Is a Bitcoin bubble hiding in the mining infrastructure?
- Could ICOs be a triumph of the commons?
- Are ICOs a Ponzi Scheme in waiting?
- Building super-detailed personas?
- What is the 'why now' of your startup?
- Will you see bots in your email?
- Don't call me and the end of no-reply?
- Will we become gut bacteria for AI?
- What is the Entrepreneur's Journey?
- Are ICOs diversification of speculation?
- What is so good about Google's Project Fi?
- What happens to loans in a Bitcoin economy?
- Is the next step an ICO for infrastructure (and trips to Mars)?
- Do you feel comfortable being flown by an AI pilot?
- What will self-driving cars do to cities?