A new chapter

It’s been almost a year since my last update. A lot has changed:

1. After 5 years at Vercel, I finished up earlier this month.

2. I joined Cursor to teach developers about AI and the future of coding.

3. I wrote about making personal software.

4. I wrote about things I believe on my updated website.

5. I blinked and my daughter is 10 months old 🤯

Like many of you, I’m finding that AI is changing how I build software. It started out as a fancy autocomplete, but has since become a core part of my coding workflow.

And that’s… strange, if I’m being honest. The way I wrote software 10 years ago feels archaic. You mean I can just ask an agent to code the feature and it will work!? Wild times.

But this new world has a lot of problems, too. Especially for beginners. I start debugging a problem with them, and they tell me how they use AI to write code, only to realize they don’t actually know how AI models work.

And I don’t mean the machine learning part (although that doesn’t hurt). They don’t understand determinism vs. non-determinism. When they don’t get good answers one day, they think the tools are broken. Wrong. They are missing the correct mental model.

It’s made me realize there is a massive gap in AI education. More people are becoming developers because of AI, but they’re not learning the right skills to actually succeed. They vibe code their app in a few days, but then next week they’re in a death spiral of errors with no path to escape.

I don’t have the answers, but I do want to start contributing some solutions. So expect to see more content explaining the fundamentals of AI models, how to actually use them to get work done, and hopefully I can start to help push things forward.