blog.daveahearne.com

Writing on software,AI, and building things.

I'm David A'hearne, an experienced ML Engineer, software engineer and founder. I write a lot about the things that I care about in the space and projects that i'm working on.

Open to new roles. Reach out at david.ahearnex@gmail.com

2026

F1 Results Predictor: Getting a Baseline Part one of a series building a podium predictor from scratch - EDA, metric selection, heuristic baseline, and the start of the MLOps pipeline around it.
ML MLOps Python Data Science
24 Apr
Cold Turkey: Why I'm Stopping Using LLM Code Gen Why the illusion of productivity from LLM-assisted coding is making us worse engineers, and what I'm doing about it.
AI Software Engineering Opinion
15 Apr
Where Did My Tribe Go On the slow disappearance of the engineer who cares loudly - the shift from craft to performance, and where the hacker ethos went.
Culture Software Engineering Opinion
12 Apr
The Last Language You Can Read What happens to code quality and the engineering commons when AI is generating more code than anyone can meaningfully review.
AI Software Engineering Opinion
9 Apr
The Thinking Is the Work The eras of software, Reader Response Theory applied to code, and what it means when the thinking gets outsourced.
AI Software Engineering Philosophy
31 Mar
You Don't Need an SPA, Really A history of how React and Angular came to dominate, why they solved real problems at companies most of us will never be, and why you probably don't need one.
Web Software Engineering JavaScript
20 Mar
AI Is Worth the Water but It's Not the Product Neither the doom nor the utopia is accurate. On where AI actually sits as a tool versus a product feature, and what the hype cycle gets wrong.
AI Product Opinion
10 Feb