Martin's Notebook

My human-written articles.

  1. 15 min read

    The Centaur Era

    Coding agents can write all the code now, but building healthy software still needs human engineers. I look at what engineers do alongside agents, and which parts of the job are likely to last.

  2. 3 min read

    AI writes all my code: one year in

    I wrote code for over thirty years, then AI got better than me so I stopped. How that happened, and what I've gained and lost since.