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Delving into the future of software and work in a post-LLM world. Click to read Works on My Machine, by Scott Werner, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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’25’26
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45 from 8 Jan 2025 to 24 May 2026
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monthly (16 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 13

  1. The Wizard With the Very Defensible Pond
  2. Here Comes (Forward Deployed) Everybody
  3. Artifacts Are Alive (And Photographs are Dead)
  4. The Illusionist and the Conjurer
  5. The Collective Superstitions of People Who Talk to Machines
  6. The Ghost in the Funnel
  7. Open Source, SaaS, and the Silence After Unlimited Code Generation
  8. From Nodes to Stories, Fiction as a Tool for Thinking
  9. The Great Zipper of Capitalism
  10. As Complexity Grows, Architecture Dominates Material
  11. The Discovery Phase Is All There Is
  12. The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting
  13. What If We Took Message-Passing Seriously?

2025 32

  1. How I (Accidentally) Started a Newsletter
  2. Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem
  3. Introducing touring_test: A Cucumber Extension For Agentic Usability Testing
  4. The Hackathon Where We Mostly Just Talked
  5. How Do You Speak Pidgin To A Probability Distribution?
  6. The Only Skill That Matters Now
  7. The Tmux Menagerie
  8. The Cause of, and the Solution to, All Your Team's Problems
  9. Safe Is What We Call Things Later
  10. The System Inside the System
  11. Entering Technical Debt's ZIRP Era
  12. The Parallel Lives of an AI Engineer
  13. Refactoring in the Age of Unlimited Code Generation
  14. Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
  15. The Great Flood of Adequate Software
  16. MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
  17. The Moldy Cucumber Chronicles
  18. LLM-powered Method Resolution with Synonllm
  19. Make Reviewing AI Output Fun!
  20. The Coming Knowledge-Work Supply-Chain Crisis
  21. Wasting Inferences With Aider
  22. Introducing MonkeysPaw - a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
  23. Polymorphism is a Force Multiplier for AI
  24. A Vibe Code to User Stories Pipeline using Bolt, Cucumber, and Asana
  25. Const_missing and AI: A Ruby Metaprogramming Experiment
  26. Test && Commit || Revert with AI
  27. AI Programs While I Sleep using GitHub Actions (and I'm drowning in PRs)
  28. Lead Enhancement Agent combining Asana, Exa.ai, and Notion
  29. Fanout/Parallelize/Reduce - AI-assisted Refactoring with Asana and GitHub
  30. Automating Test Generation with Gemini 1.5 Pro & GitHub Actions
  31. Waste Inferences!
  32. Hallucinations are a Feature Not A Bug