“Every developer has that one post they almost didn’t write…” For 2025, I decided to get back into technical writing. I’ve been obsessing over getting AI to actually understand production code. Not just generate it, but really grok what’s happening in a mature codebase. After countless nights exploring this rabbit hole, I wrote about a breakthrough I had. Sunday morning, I posted it on HackerNews. “Why not,” I thought, “maybe someone will find it interesting.” Then I went ...