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I have watched the Internet slowly change from a place where people shared what they knew into one where nearly every question is treated as a chance to sell something. I know why it happened. I still miss what we've lost.

Sometimes what leaves us tired isn't the work we've done, but the things we keep putting off: the unanswered message, the apology, the hard conversation, the decision we're avoiding. Perhaps it's time to close a few of those open loops.

PHP2Shell sent our team into an around-the-clock effort to secure client websites. It also made something clear: AI is making it easier to find and exploit old bugs, and we need to get just as good at defending against them.

As coding agents take on more responsibility, AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md are becoming part of how we manage software quality. The right instructions aren't necessarily the shortest. They are the ones that prevent mistakes, make checks clear, and match the authority we give our agents.

When code becomes cheap to produce, the hard part of software development shifts to deciding what should exist, proving it works, and deciding who gets to trust it. My predictions for teams, code review, open source, computing costs, and the software we use.