Here’s a short list of what I’ve been reading lately.

Articles

• “Thoughts on slowing the fuck down”: It kind of hit a nerve with me. I’m trying to be very productive with AI, building agents, tweaking their capabilities, and so on. But sometimes it is not good to not understand how things work. My website, for example, is mostly vibe coded, and that’s fine because I don’t care that much. But when using it at work, doing very fast vibe coding can be stressful because you produce huge amounts of code that you later think about and want to improve upon. Before, I usually wrote things only once. For critical data systems I am not using AI that much, but things like internal UI tools I do.

Books

• “Kafka - Metamorphosis”: A classic that I had never read. I read it while on vacation in Greece. It’s quite a sad story about a man who becomes a giant cockroach of some sort, and for me it is a fantastical way to explain how a crippling condition can affect a person and a family. I know this from past experience, and it made me emotional.