Cloudflare had their best quarter ever and laid off 1,100 people. IKEA retrained their support staff as interior designers and opened a billion-dollar business line. One is a number; the other is a strategy. On Jevons' Paradox, forward deploy engineers, and why software demand is about to get larger than it's ever been.
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cat post >>Prompt tricks. Vibe coding. Context files. And now: building the system around the agent, not just the agent itself. A look at how AI-assisted programming keeps moving the leverage point — and where it's landed in 2026.
cat post >>Writing a blog used to feel like staring into a blinking cursor until inspiration or deadline anxiety finally broke the deadlock. Then I started treating AI as a collaborator, not a ghostwriter — and everything changed.
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