What Steve Yegge thinks about ambition

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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.

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11 Mar 2026

Our readingAI has a vampiric effect on the people using it: it excites them into working past their own ragged edge.

Their wordsThere's a vampiric effect happening with AI where it gets you excited and you work really really hard and you're capturing a ton of value. For me, I'm doing it all for myself and it's still kind of like pushing me to my ragged edge.

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