Cristian Nebunu: latest posts

Should You Leave Red Herrings About Yourself Online?: For most people, scattering fake biographical details online is a weak way to confuse data brokers. Brokers merge public records that cannot be fictionalized, ten planted lies cannot compete with years of automated collection,…

Five essays that all circle a similar question from different angles: what happens to your own thinking when you outsource the hard, effortful part of it. Starting in the Analog Domain: Stoyan Stefanov sees the same pattern in music composition and “vibe…

The essays in this pair are smaller in scope than the last group, but they hit close to home if you build things for a living. The Slow Death of the Power User: This essay argues that two decades of platform design…

Three essays about the same underlying question, approached from very different angles: who controls the infrastructure we depend on, and what happens when nobody’s watching closely enough. Now We’re Getting AI Fake News Complaining About How AI Fake News Is the Death…

A closing batch about where the work, and the money, is heading, from the codebase out to the economy, including whether small software businesses survive AI. Addy Osmani’s The New Software Lifecycle pulls the ideas that matter out of a Google whitepaper…