Sometime late last year, agentic coding tools hit a tipping point. The strongest engineers I follow use them. I’d like to write about it.

There’s so much delightful expansive crazy-making clever thoughtful new content about the state of AI. I’d like to contribute to it.

These days, I’m using LLMs extensively in data pipelines to cull, structure, clean, and enrich data at scale. I’d like to share more.

I prototyped a system that uses LLMs to generate “just in time” user interfaces. It’s janky and magical. I’d like to show and tell.

But I won’t. Not today.

I won’t because my country is descending further into darkness. I won’t because the streets of the Twin Cities are filled with protest. I won’t because two innocent civilians have been murdered by federal agents on those very same streets. I won’t because the government lied about those deaths. I won’t because I know that this is not the first time and that it will not be the last.

I understand, of course, that there’s nothing I can say or do at the moment that will make a genuine difference. No number of protests attended, no number of posts written will tip the scales. But I won’t stay silent. This blog has been my home for almost a quarter century. It’s the only place online I can meaningfully say anything at all.

So, for now, I will simply say this: I stand with the people of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. I stand against ICE and CBP. They must be shuttered and their agents must be held accountable for their heinous crimes.