Archive - Simon’s Substack

AI Coded So Fast It Exposed All My Mistakes. So I Made It Fix Those Too.

How one broken AI coding sprint forced me to rethink software engineering, and build something that fixed it.

January 2026

Practically protecting your privacy against the government, hackers, and advertisers

(note: if there is anything I missed, please comment down below)

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