Should You Still Learn to Code?
With AI doing so much of the heavy lifting, does it still make sense to learn how to code? Car factories and cameras already ran this experiment, and their h...
Thoughts on technology, fitness, music, interior design, fatherhood, and the pursuit of simplicity. Each essay explores its topic with clarity and purpose. I write about what genuinely interests me, diving deep into one subject at a time. New posts appear when there's something worth saying.
Good, Fast, Cheap
The Iron Triangle told software teams to pick two. AI-assisted engineering lowers the cost of context-specific software and changes the old build-versus-buy ...
Building a Chatbot From 15 Years of My Own Writing
How I built a retrieval-augmented generation chatbot for my personal website using SQLite for vector search, OpenAI for embeddings, and Claude for responses,...
AI and Software Engineering: This time it's different (it never is)
Every major technological breakthrough since the 1950s has promised to eliminate software engineers. From COBOL to AI, seven decades of predictions have been...
Tomorrow's Growth Starts with Today's Code: A Practical Implementation Guide
Implementing Adia Sowho's principles for building scalable systems, with practical code examples and lessons from real-life experiences.
Introducing edemkumodzi.com v3.0
After years of hosting my thoughts on various platforms, I'm bringing my digital home back under my own control. The story of my website's evolution and why ...