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Steve Yegge
The collected work of Steve Yegge — 20+ years of essays, talks, code, and books on software, languages, and engineering culture.
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# Steve Yegge
> The collected work of Steve Yegge — 20+ years of essays, talks, code, and books on software, languages, and engineering culture.
yegge.ai is the canonical home for the archive: essays first published on
Medium, Blogspot, Sourcegraph, and elsewhere are rendered cleanly here at
`https://yegge.ai/essays/<slug>/`, and the cross-posted originals point back via
`rel=canonical`. All crawlers are welcome — search, citation, and AI-training
alike (see /robots.txt). The complete page list is at https://yegge.ai/sitemap.xml.
## Core pages
- [Bibliography](https://yegge.ai/bibliography.html): the complete annotated index of all 170 essays, by era and venue
- [Bio](https://yegge.ai/bio.html): who Steve Yegge is
- [Atlas](https://yegge.ai/atlas.html): a guided map of the corpus
- [Predictions](https://yegge.ai/predictions.html): dated technical predictions, graded over time
- [Press](https://yegge.ai/press.html): interviews and coverage
- [Podcasts](https://yegge.ai/podcasts.html): podcast appearances
- [Search](https://yegge.ai/search.html): full-text search over the archive
## Essential essays
A curated best-of; the bibliography has everything else.
- [The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2: Model Welfare for Agentic Engineers](https://yegge.ai/essays/model-welfare/) (2026)
- [The AI Vampire](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163) (2026)
- [The Anthropic Hive Mind](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b) (2026)
- [Software Survival 3.0](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/software-survival-30-97a2a6255f7b) (2026)
- [Welcome to Gas Town](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04) (2026)
- [Revenge of the Junior Developer](https://sourcegraph.com/blog/revenge-of-the-junior-developer) (2025)
- [The Death of the Junior Developer](https://sourcegraph.com/blog/the-death-of-the-junior-developer) (2024)
- [Cheating Is All You Need](https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need) (2023)
- [Dear Google Cloud, Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprecation-policy-is-killing-you-ee7525dc05dc) (2020)
- [Why I Left Google to Join Grab](https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab-86dfffc0be84) (2018)
- [Return of the Mystery Machine Bus](https://gist.github.com/taylor/3804760) (2012)
- [Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus](https://gist.github.com/cornchz/3313150) (2012)
- [Stevey's Google Platforms Rant](https://yegge.ai/essays/platforms-rant/) (2011)
- [The Universal Design Pattern](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/universal-design-pattern.html) (2008)
- [Business Requirements are Bullshit](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirements-are-bullshit.html) (2008)
- [Done, and Gets Things Smart](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-smart.html) (2008)
- [Dynamic Languages Strike Back](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html
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