# Writing

> Essays, talks, and podcast appearances by Jared Palmer on software development, AI, and developer tools.

- [Code you didn't write](https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/code-you-didnt-write.md): 2026-10-14 — AI coding tools take away the slowness that used to limit bad taste. The taste that matters most now comes before any code is written, in knowing what to ask for.
- [Introducing Kev](https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/introducing-kev.md): 2026-10-01 — An open source family of decision models you can train and run on your own.
- [Your CI is now the bottleneck](https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/your-ci-is-now-the-bottleneck.md): 2026-01-05 — A 10-minute CI run was fine when it took two hours to write the code. When an agent writes it in five, that same run is most of your cycle time.
- [Leaving Vercel](https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/leaving-vercel.md): 2025-06-17 — After 4 incredible years building Turborepo, AI SDK, shadcn/ui, and v0, I have made the difficult decision to leave Vercel.
- [There are only 5,000 elite software engineers in the world](https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/there-are-only-5000-elite-software-engineers.md): 2025-01-30 — Price's law says the square root of a field does half its work. For software, that's about 5,000 people, and the number grows much more slowly than the field does.
- [Turborepo is joining Vercel](https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/joining-vercel.md): 2021-12-09 — Turborepo is joining Vercel to make the web even faster.
- [GitHub isn't fun anymore](https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/github-isn-fun-anymore.md): 2020-06-16 — At first I thought it was just me getting older and more experienced. But after several conversations about it with colleagues and other open source maintainers, I'm not the only one who feels this way.
- [Gatsby vs. Next.js](https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/gatsby-vs-nextjs.md): 2019-11-23
- [React is becoming a black box](https://jaredpalmer.com/blog/react-is-becoming-a-black-box.md): 2019-10-21 — It pains me to say it, but React on the verge of becoming a black box. Between Hooks and forthcoming Concurrent Mode, reasoning about your application could get a lot harder.

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