Here are the books I read in October. Pirate Queen and Partita were my favorites. Molka is very creepy.

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Welker: "If Mary Peltola wins, if the race is certified, will you accept those results?" Sen. Tim Scott: "Well, Dan Sullivan's gonna win." Welker: "Will you accept the results of that race?" Scott: *doesn't answer*

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But LLMs, critically, take care of not just the drudgery, but also the most interesting, prestigious, and mentally demanding parts of the job. Fancy algorithms. Architecture and systems design. They know the literature better than you do, and they can put it into practice.

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The bug fix example doesn't even begin to describe how much pointless drudgery LLMs have eliminated from the software engineering profession. We used to spend so much time reading logs, farting around with configs, rerunning things over and over again... LLMs do all of it.

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I was on leave at the time and returned in January of 2026. When I left I stored my shovel in the shed. When I returned the shovel was still there, but joined by an army excavators. Rarely, rarely do I have recourse to reach for the shovel.

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