Author: Dexter Santucci

  • Truth, or Extinction

    Truth, or Extinction

    A Manifesto Against Misinformation Dear friends, I am furious. I’ve had enough of this misinformation plague. It has to end. I’m old enough to remember when the Internet was born. It was beautiful. A wild, open place where we could share knowledge, discover artwork, trade files, explore strange new corners of humanity. It was possibility…

  • The Story Behind Maps Address Book

    The Story Behind Maps Address Book

    Or: How the Simplest App Turned Into the Most Difficult Thing We’ve Ever Built Chapter 1: It’s Never Too Late (to Get in Trouble) I was nearly 50, with a fulfilling career in media production behind me, and a notebook full of ideas I’d never acted on. One of those ideas was a stock trading…

  • Spec-First Development: The Missing Manual for Building with AI

    Stop vibe coding and start creating maintainable software with LLMs Since large language models (LLMs) hit the mainstream, I’ve watched engineers transform their workflows. With tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and GitHub Copilot at their disposal, developers are chatting their software into existence – but they’re doing it wrong. I’m going to show you why this…

  • Programmers Will Be Replaced by People with Ideas

    …the same way human computers were replaced by machines. Software engineers – those tasked with translating ideas into code – are witnessing a transformation as AI begins to handle more of the technical heavy lifting. So what happens when neural networks can do for free what once required specialized skills? When LLMs first appeared, my…

  • Beyond the Hype: The Real Path to AGI

    We’re Not in a Bubble—We’re at the Brink of Revolution Every day I read another hot take claiming we’re in an AI bubble. These writers argue that Large Language Models cannot possibly lead to Artificial General Intelligence. And while they’ve got a point about the limitations of current systems, they’re catastrophically wrong about the bubble. We’re not…

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