Archive - Working Frontier

The Smallest Sufficient World

The model knows how to build. It has no idea what you want.

Aug 30 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

What If the Web Becomes a Backend?

It could remain indispensable while disappearing behind the answer.

Aug 23 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

Slop Is a Failure of Judgment

AI can build extraordinary software. Provenance is not the quality test.

Aug 16 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

The Missing Rungs

When production stops teaching by accident

Aug 4 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

July 2026

The tool changed. The problem did not.

Jul 28 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

Make the Room Calmer

Uncertainty travels downhill unless someone stops it

Jul 22 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

Models Are the New JavaScript Frameworks

The names change every week. The skills underneath them compound.

Jul 16 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

Kent Beck’s 3X when implementation stops being the default bottleneck

Jul 12 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

Say It Out Loud

Voice gives agents the context typing leaves behind

Jul 5 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

June 2026

The End of Estimates

When implementation gets cheap, sizing means risk, not effort

Jun 27 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

The career advice that doesn’t sound like advice

Jun 2 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

May 2026

The Cold Reviewer

Pushback only works from outside the thread

May 26 • Andrei-Mihai Nicolae

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