Alex Zurek

@zureka.dev

Software Engineer - Teaching computers how to make the mistakes I would normally make by hand. I occasionally write blog posts over at https://zureka.substack.com/

"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially." Aye, if only any of us had been saying this from day one 🤡 www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...

The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways

What two years of telemetry data from 22,000 developers reveals about AI's real impact on developer productivity, code quality, and business risk in 2026.

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I expect tech companies to be hit by a triple whammy in the coming months 1. Rising AI token costs. 2. The realization churning out more code doesn’t necessarily translate to business or customer value and is in fact worse in some cases. 3. Fewer employees to clean up the mess post-layoffs.

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Listening to the rain outside as I repaint the kitchen cabinets with my best friend (a.k.a. my wife) is a special kind of therapy.

Job openings in 2026: "Hiring an expert in technology XYZ for a solution that will improve the lives of millions. PhD required. $40K/year" "Hiring for a niche futuristic project with potential to make a few people really rich and f everyone else and the environment. No ethics required. $400k/year"

Thank you, Grammarly, for releasing your newest shitty AI feature that steals the likeness of real people without their consent. I needed a good reminder to cancel my subscription before it renewed.

I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

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This is a brilliant way for the students to realize this on their own rather than someone telling them.

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i don’t think we’re ready for hacktoberfest and ‘vibe coding’ sending strength to open source maintainers

Took advantage of the long weekend to complete a project we’ve wanted to tackle for awhile now. We finally added drawers to our kitchen pantry! So much easier to find things now.

A kitchen pantry that is now filled with evenly spaced drawers.

That awkward moment when you find a shortened variable name for "cumulative weight" in the codebase... and it has been there for years.

I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out

dan@danabra.mov · 12mo ago

the main thing that makes me uneasy about llms is the cultural backdrop of global war on knowledge. the war on knowledge isn’t new but now it’s cheered on from tech too. tools for thought pivoted to slot machines because that’s what people want. “how things work” is buried under opaque indirections