Simon Willison shares influential tech career articles

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-09-14 20:21

Simon Willison reflects on influential blog posts that shaped his career, highlighting "The Law of Leaky Abstractions" by Joel Spolsky for its emphasis on understanding underlying systems. He also cites Will Larson's "Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt" for its perspective on managing technical debt through continuous migration, and Charity Majors' "The Engineer/Manager Pendulum" for normalizing career shifts between individual contribution and management roles. The post also briefly mentions recent articles on GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's actions against RubyGems, and the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. AI

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Simon Willison TIER_1 English(EN) · 2026-09-14 20:21

What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?

<p><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/lbavmm/what_blog_posts_influenced_your_thinking#c_4fxnwn">My comment</a> on <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/lbavmm/what_blog_posts_influenced_your_thinking">What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?</a> — Lobste.rs.</p><p>An early Joel …