30th January 2020
I used to tolerate and expect complexity. Working on Go the past 10 years has changed my perspective, though. I now value simplicity above almost all else and tolerate complexity only when it's well isolated, well documented, well tested, and necessary to make things simpler overall at other layers for most people.
Recent articles
- Live blog: Code w/ Claude 2026 - 6th May 2026
- Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like - 6th May 2026
- LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor - 29th April 2026