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The unexpected side effect of LLMs: the burden of knowledge

AI is supposed to make us more productive. Once you know something, though, there’s no going back - and that has a cost of its own.

May 20, 2026 · 2 min · 237 words · Agoston Fung
A line chart titled 'Estimated JavaScript usage over time (1995–2025)' showing the percentage of developers using JavaScript climbing from ~1% in 1995 to ~65% by 2025, with a red star marking 2009 (the year Node.js was announced and server-side JavaScript became possible). The steepest growth is between 2009 and 2018.

Less than a year ago

A friend told me software wouldn’t need humans to write code. I laughed. Twelve months later, here’s the receipt.

March 7, 2026 · 2 min · 238 words · Agoston Fung

7 strategies to figure out what you want

Twenty years of trying things - career breaks, travel, study, side projects, therapy - and what each one taught me about the question we all keep asking ourselves.

November 22, 2025 · 2 min · 375 words · Agoston Fung