Life in the Singularity

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AI Has Changed Software Engineering
And the Smart Engineers Couldn't Be Happier
Dec 14 • Matt McDonagh
Monolithic Architecture Dominance in the Age of AI
For ten years, you have been sold a lie.
Dec 13 • Matt McDonagh
Blueprint for the Convexity Engine
Hope is not a strategy.
Dec 10 • Matt McDonagh
AI Is Our Global Nervous System
The Second Current
Dec 6 • Matt McDonagh

November 2025

Vibe Engineering, Part II
In the first part of this series, we laid the foundation.
Nov 29 • Matt McDonagh
Deep Learning Is an Illusion: The Google Research That Just Rewrote the Rules of Scale
RIP Transformers: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Won’t Be "Deep"
Nov 23 • Matt McDonagh
The Invention of the Singularity Drive
We have spent the last three hundred years chopping reality into little pieces.
Nov 22 • Matt McDonagh
Why This New AI Paper Unlocks the Trillion-Dollar Market for Autonomous Agents
We’re all waiting for the “Jarvis” moment.
Nov 22 • Matt McDonagh
Diffusion May Overtake Transformers in 2026
I’ve been alpha testing Google’s new Diffusion model.
Nov 15 • Matt McDonagh
Why Being a Data Engineer Makes You a Better Early-Stage Investor
The Plumber’s Edge
Nov 13 • Matt McDonagh
How to Build Software
I’m going to show everyone how easy it is to build software.
Nov 6 • Matt McDonagh
The Trouble with Tokens
The Trillion-Dollar Stopgap
Nov 5 • Matt McDonagh
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