Eduardo Arsand

Notes & Thoughts Quick thoughts, technical notes, and ideas.

Notes written to clarify my own thinking, share knowledge, explore ideas, and remember important concepts.

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Taliwind Drama because of AI

Tailwind Labs lost 80% of revenue and 75% of its engineers while usage exploded. The cause: AI replaced the web as the discovery layer, breaking documentation-driven funnels.

ProgrammingArtificial IntelligenceOpen Source
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The Discipline of Simple Code

After two decades in software: writing simple code is harder than complex code. Simplicity demands discipline, problem clarity, and focus on what endures.

ArchitectureProgramming
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The Internet is Becoming Synthetic

The Internet was valuable because it connected human knowledge from all around the world, from popular to scientific knowledge. Now it increasingly consists of machine-generated content.

TechnologyPhilosophyArtificial Intelligence
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AI Is Coming for Culture

AI is not merely automating tasks — it is restructuring the conditions under which culture is produced, distributed, and valued.

Artificial IntelligenceCulture
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A Poem About Entropy

Several months ago, thinking about entropy and debating it with friends, I came with an idea of a poem. I'm no real poet, and AI helped me a little with some words.

EntropyPhilosophyScience
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Why Real Progress Feels Slower in 2025 Than in 2005

Better tools, faster machines, smarter assistants — yet developers feel more constrained than ever. Here's why the feeling is accurate.

Artificial IntelligenceCulture
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Sacrificing the Inferior Self: Order, Resilience, and the Path to a Functional Society

Suppressing base impulses and subordinating the reactive self to rational structure is not repression — it is the mechanism of both personal resilience and civilisational function.

CulturePhilosophy
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Entropy, Progress, and the Illusion of Meaning

Exponential tools simulate progress while structural meaning erodes. Movement without direction is drift. This is the geometry of Zero.

PhilosophyCultureEntropy
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Foundational Knowledge in AI-Assisted Development

Examination of why classical computer science fundamentals remain essential for evaluating AI-generated code, recognizing abstraction failures, and making informed architectural decisions despite automated code generation.

Artificial IntelligenceProgramming
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About CSS Property "overscroll-behavior"

Just found out about this CSS property. You don't need javascript anymore to block that anoying scroll chaining from a modal to the background page.

ProgrammingCSS
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Why Thinking Still Matters More Than Tools

Tools amplify thinking but cannot replace it. The capacity to reason precisely remains the irreducible foundation of effective technical work.

ProgrammingTechnology
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Why AI Won’t Save Bad Architecture

AI can speed up coding inside a well-structured system, but it cannot repair fundamental architectural flaws. AI won't fix misorganization, it will only accelerate and amplify it.

Artificial IntelligenceProgramming
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