Wesley Wei

Programmers Have Survived Every Machine Built to Replace Them

From COBOL in 1959 to the coding agents of today the same prophecy keeps failing except this time it is quietly eating the entry level rung

A County Welcomed 37 Data Centers Then Told Its Schools to Turn Off the Lights

For twenty years the cloud pretended to weigh nothing and now the most physical machine ever built is landing on the towns that said yes to

AI Search Still Has Not Learned What She Solved In 1972

Before machine answers can be trusted retrieval has to learn which words deserve weight

Anthropic Sells You AI Coding Tools. Its Own Data Says They’re Making You Worse.

The company selling you the tool ran the experiment that shows what the tool costs. Nobody made them publish it.

Windows Is No Longer Just Your Computer

The local login fight exposes who controls the first boot

AI Slop Is Becoming a Workplace Tax

The cost of noise

Workers Got Measurably Faster and Company Revenue Did Not Move

Robert Solow spotted this gap in 1987 and computers took thirteen years to close it AI is now running the same clock

Every Popup You Hate Has a Birthday and an Author

The annoyances of modern web browsing arrived one by one between 1994 and 2019 each with a name and a date

The Licensed Internet Returns

Identity Before Access

Every red squiggle under your typos was one engineer’s idea. He just died, unnamed.

For three decades it has flagged the world's misspellings as they happen, and the man who first drew it into Microsoft Word is gone

The Internet Made Every Lecture Free. Discipline Got More Expensive.

As an algorithm engineer, I do not think feeds erase knowledge gaps. I think they quietly widen them.

I Run an AI Loop for a Living. Here Are the 5 Things That Keep It From Rotting.

The frontier moved from writing prompts to running loops - and every failure I have had running one was the harness, never the model.

Split for Pressure You Can Name Not Scale You Imagine

What Uber's 2013 dispatch crisis teaches Go teams about when to split and when to wait

Silicon Valley Has Run On a Sixty Day Clock for Thirty Six Years

From the 1990 Immigration Act to the spring 2026 tech layoffs the visa that built American tech also never let it stop counting down

AI Spent Seventy Years Waiting for Gamers

How the substrate behind today's AI was funded by an industry that was not paying attention to AI at all

Go’s Brilliant Choice to Be Boring

Deliberate restraint turned a programming language into infrastructure

AI Software Is Wearing A Costume

How to approve a design that builds trust

Over a Trillion Databases Run His Code. The Team Took Their Names Off the Website.

SQLite became the database inside almost everything, then its maintainers learned that visibility has a cost.

Go Isn’t Fun to Write. That’s Why I Keep Coming Back.

a dark office with a single glowing screen — the on-call hour, when a language's real cost shows up.

50,000 Go Projects Depended on His Error Fix. Then Go Copied It and Broke His Package.

One engineer's side project became Go's de facto error-handling standard, until the language copied it without fully honoring it.

Why Bigger Context Windows Still Don’t Fix AI Agents

Why reliability breaks long before raw model intelligence does

Configuration Belongs in the Client Not the Function Signature

Configuration Belongs in the Client Not the Function Signature

AI Evidence Is Where Convenience Becomes Contamination

The paperwork shortcut may be more dangerous than the fake image

Before You Rewrite in Go Find the Coordination Tax

In Go, Every Abstraction Has to Earn Its Keep

Explicit Beats Clever