https://alannorton.com/tags/software-engineering/ Recent content in Software-Engineering on 👨🏻‍💻 ∉ ℚ Hugo en-us Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:43:17 -0700 https://alannorton.com/posts/trust-in-the-age-of-ai/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://alannorton.com/posts/trust-in-the-age-of-ai/ <p>Consider two headlines:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Bun spends $165,000 on overtime as engineers work 80-hour weeks to rewrite its runtime in 11 days</strong></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><strong>Bun spends $165,000 on AI tokens to rewrite its runtime in 11 days</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Same company, same invoice, same timescale. Either way, the story ends with an artifact: a runtime on a release page, waiting for you to install it. So the question is not which headline you prefer. It is which binary you run.</p>