Archive - Jeff Derrick

Restraint Used to Be Free. Now You Have to Choose It.

What kept codebases small is gone. Nothing replaced it.

Oct 8 • Jeff Derrick

September 2026

The Hard Part Isn't Getting AI to Write Code. It's Trusting What It Wrote.

Generation is the solved part. Everything expensive happens after the code comes back.

Sep 21 • Jeff Derrick

Maybe the Best Thing AI Does Is Help You Write Less Code

The most valuable thing AI has done for me isn't the code it wrote. It's the code it helped me not write.

Sep 14 • Jeff Derrick

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