Paul Gilzow

@gilzow.com

Technical Success Manager at Upsun.com. Web app security evangelist. Runs on passion and coffee. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

AI made engineers faster. It didn't make teams faster. The constraint was never typing; it was everything around it. The SDLC is being rewritten, and we'd like to rewrite it with you. That's why we're introducing Upsun Dispatch. 🚀 Launching September 2026 👉 Read the story: upsun.com/blog/introdu...

"Tell me the code isn’t the prettiest, but it’s straightforward to debug, quick to review, and safe to change, and I’ll take it. In practice you rarely get those three without readable code, but readability was never the goal. It was a proxy." 👏 👏👏 developer.upsun.com/posts/insigh...

Code matters less than ever, and more than ever - Upsun Developer

AI made code cheap to write and cheap to throw away, so it matters less than ever. It also matters more, because debugging, reviews, and velocity all depend on it.

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If i can give junior developers just one piece of advice: never, EVER assume that what makes sense to you will make sense to anyone else. Always, ALWAYS challenge your assumptions. Ask your fellow devs to check your assumptions. Ask someone in a different role. Ask your MOM.

We keep saying: "AI will handle the boring stuff, and humans will supervise." But the problem is--as AI reliability improves, it becomes really hard to motivate a human to conscientiously monitor it. In a new WP with Gerard Cachon, we describe the "human-AI contracting paradox."

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Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...

Tell Congress: Unmask ICE!

Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are re...

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Grocery stores, especially you, Kroger/Gerbes: why do you put the baskets on the outside of your security check point coming in? How am i supposed to get a basket once I'm inside of i decide i need one? Trying to go back out sets off the alarms. UX fail

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.