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Dustin Snoap

The On-Ramp Is Closed The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 17 percent employment growth for software engineers through 2033. Those citing this as evidence nothing struct

Jun 13

Dustin Snoap

The Future Is In Procurement Imagine, for a moment, that AI actually worked. Not demo-worked. Not impressive-in-a-controlled-environment-worked. Actually worked, reliably, at scal

Jun 11

Dustin Snoap

Thermodynamics Doesn't Care About Your Roadmap At some point in the last several years, the AI industry collectively decided that the physical world was a temporary inconvenience that would be reso

Jun 9

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The Next Miracle Is Running a Little Late Every major technological revolution has, at some point, required a second revolution to keep going. Steam power needed metallurgy to improve before

Jun 7

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The Diminishing Returns of Magic There is a graph somewhere, in a very expensive conference room, that goes up and to the right forever. It has been in that conference room for about

Jun 5

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You Still Need Someone To Push The Button The tech job market in 2026 is not collapsing. It's reorganizing itself around a new theory of what humans are actually for, which is testing in real

May 23

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As It Turns Out, People Were Doing Something This is the part of the story that has the particular quality of a joke someone tells at a dinner party, slowly realizing it's actually about them. G

May 21

Dustin Snoap

A Robot Walked Into a Bar. The Bar Is Still Looking Into What Happened. Amazon has an internal AI tool called Kiro. Kiro is an agentic coding assistant, which means it doesn't just suggest things. It does things. On its ow

May 17

Dustin Snoap

We Automated the Easy Part. The Hard Part Would Like a Word. The tech industry is in the middle of something that sounds complicated but isn't, once you find the right analogy. Here's my attempt at one... Consi

May 15

Dustin Snoap

The Jobs Are Gone. The Jobs Are Also Here. This Is Fine. Something deeply strange is happening in the tech industry, and the people most qualified to explain it are also the most confused by it. Companies a

May 13

Dustin Snoap

+1 I built my portfolio site twice. The first time I asked AI where to start. It suggested Astro. Lightweight, modern, perfect for small static sites. Made sense to me. I went with it, v

Apr 11

Dustin Snoap

Pink Monkeys and Bible Salesmen A few of my friends randomly decided to make a trip to Chicago. Having been invited, I jumped at the opportunity. Our first stop was Pink Monkeys Gent

Nov 22, 2025

Dustin Snoap

You Don’t Exist It didn’t take Douglas Adams’s faulty mathematics in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for me to imagine that our universe could be controlled by a

May 21, 2014

Dustin Snoap

Charitable Donations If you’re a driver who hasn’t ventured too far beyond a small-town community and plans to make it in the “big city,” you’ll soon notice a few differen

Jul 22, 2006

Dustin Snoap

Software Engineer III at Tebra

I build backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines, helping computers exchange information without developing philosophical objections to its format. Previously, I worked at Amazon (Zappos) as a Software Development Engineer.

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