AI for Software Engineers

[Revised] You Don’t Need to Spend $100/mo on Claude Code: Your Guide to Local Coding Models

What you need to know about local model tooling and the steps for setting one up yourself

Dec 20 • Logan Thorneloe

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AI for Software Engineers 74: What You Need to Know for 2026

In-demand job skills, MCP goes to The Linux Foundation, OpenAI’s Code Red, and more

Dec 16 • Logan Thorneloe

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AI for SWEs 73: What Ilya Saw and the Time of TPUs

Plus, the White House unifies US AI research and Antigravity exposes why agents are so hard to build

Dec 2 • Logan Thorneloe

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November 2025

DMs Are the New Cover Letter: How to Get Hired in AI in 2025/2026

How you should go about DM'ing others for job opportunities and a few other tips to stand out

Nov 29 • Logan Thorneloe

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AI for SWEs 72: Gemini 3 Pro, Claude Opus 4.5, and Olmo 3

Intelligence just got a whole lot smarter

Nov 25 • Logan Thorneloe

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ML for SWEs 71: The IDE For Gambling

Yann LeCun was right, Chad is abhorrent, and you’re sleeping on local coding models

Nov 18 • Logan Thorneloe

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How to Build Your First Recommendation System (Easy)

A step-by-step guide to training and serving a collaborative filtering model to serve users content

Nov 11 • Logan Thorneloe

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October 2025

ML for SWEs 69: This is how top AI research labs will make money

My thoughts on OpenAI's Dev Day killing startups and monetizing top AI research labs

Oct 8 • Logan Thorneloe

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The Top 10 AI Skills Software Engineers Should Focus On (In Order)

A straightforward list from my market research

Oct 3 • Logan Thorneloe

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ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem

43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity

Oct 1 • Logan Thorneloe

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September 2025

ML for SWEs 67: No, there won't be a 3-day work week

CEOs predict AI will create a 3-day workweek

Sep 17 • Logan Thorneloe

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The 5 AI-Related Jobs Every Software Engineer Should Know About

What each role actually entails and the qualifications to work each

Sep 12 • Logan Thorneloe

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