Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

I'm hopeful that the critical skill to develop here is discipline. That’s not great news for me: I’ve been trying to figure that one out for decades!

The anti-AI backlash and the ongoing atomization of culture are absolutely headwinds against any openly AI-heavy production achieving broad cultural legitimacy right now. Maybe you see that as a good thing, but the backlash also distorts our ability to measure what is actually happening. We don't know what we don't know.

The goal of the project was to turn on a light in the living room any time a cat is detected in the drop ceiling alcove.

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I don't know how they're going to correct for the market crash they've seen in the past couple of years. The bourbon bubble seems like it has completely burst and it will be interesting to watch the effects on Kentucky's economy in the years to come as millions of barrels of bourbon no one wants can't be sold to make up for all the energy and capital that went into them.

Look at this again with fresh eyes. The phrase "fresh eyes" is kind of magic. You'll usually get startlingly good results with just that one sentence.

AI didn’t kill the senior engineer. We did, by not hiring the junior who would’ve become one. Compound interest works in both directions. The per-developer cost I wrote about a month ago is one side of the meter. The unhired junior is the other, and that meter has been running since 2024 whether the dashboards report it or not.

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On May 4, 1984, Milton Bradley, a leading producer of board games for 124 years, agreed to sell itself to Hasbro. Changes in the way people played games in the 80s, especially kids, put pressure on the company. In this blog post, I’ll explain how changing times led Milton Bradley to make a transformational bet at the worst possible time that ultimately sunk the maker of the game Battleship, and what happened to what was left of Milton Bradley.