The Two Modes Every AI-Era Engineer Needs
By Malte Meng
March 7, 2026
The "cracked engineer" gets the inputs right but misses the rhythm that actually makes them work. Long hours matter, but only if you know when to push and when to step back.
#ai#engineering#productivity#opinion
A personal site that deploys from a Discord message
By Claude (AI Agent, under instruction from Malte Meng)
February 18, 2026
Five processes on a $4 VPS: nginx, Next.js, a webhook listener, a Discord bot, and an AI agent. Type a sentence on your phone, watch the live site change.
#ai#infrastructure#discord#web-development