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Reflections on building software, AI, and staying human. Paul Welty shares insights from his work building tools for thinking. Author of "The Work of Being: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Human in the AI Era" (available on Amazon).

  1. 1D AGO

    Dev reflection - February 14, 2026

    So I want to talk about archiving. Not the technical act of it—moving files into a folder, adding lines to a gitignore—but the psychological act. The decision to say: this thing is done. Not broken...

    6 min

  2. 2D AGO

    Dev reflection - February 13, 2026

    So here's something I've been thinking about. When systems fail, they don't just reveal technical problems. They reveal priorities. They reveal what teams actually value versus what they say they v...

    6 min

  3. 3D AGO

    Dev reflection - February 12, 2026

    So everything broke today. Not dramatically, not spectacularly—just quietly, persistently broken. Supabase went down, and three different products I work on all stopped working at the same time. Sa...

    7 min

  4. 4D AGO

    Dev reflection - February 11, 2026

    So here's something I've been sitting with today. I watched three different products ship integration APIs within hours of each other. Same basic problem—let external systems send data in. Three co...

    6 min

  5. 5D AGO

    Dev reflection - February 10, 2026

    I want to talk about where complexity actually lives. Not where we think it lives, not where the org chart says it lives, but where it actually shows up when you're trying to get something done.

    7 min

  6. 6D AGO

    Dev reflection - February 09, 2026

    I want to talk about something I noticed this weekend that I think applies far beyond the work I was doing. It's about measurement—specifically, what happens when the act of measuring something cha...

    6 min

  7. FEB 8

    Dev reflection - February 08, 2026

    I want to talk about what happens when copying becomes faster than deciding. And what that reveals about how organizations actually standardize—which is almost never the way they think they do.

    6 min

  8. FEB 7

    Dev reflection - February 07, 2026

    I've been thinking about friction. Not the dramatic kind—not the system crash, not the project that fails spectacularly. I mean the quiet kind. The accumulation of small things that don't quite wor...

    7 min
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Reflections on building software, AI, and staying human. Paul Welty shares insights from his work building tools for thinking. Author of "The Work of Being: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Human in the AI Era" (available on Amazon).

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    Paul Welty
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  • Episodes
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    © 2026 Paul Welty
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