Roger Wilco, Ramblings of Roger Meike on Roger Wilco

What Scenario Are We In? It Depends on Which Question You Ask

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

As a kid, before the internet, I spent late nights tuning my shortwave radio around in search of weak signals. Those far away radio stations helped me to imagine far away parts of the world. I’m still an amateur radio operator (I know it’s a nerd badge, but if you read my blogs, this likely doesn’t put you off too much). Years of tracking signals from foreign countries, ships at sea and satellites help me to feel connected to the world.

The Scam That Knew My Resume: AI displacement and the coming wave of cybercrime that targets YOU

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Prepare for a Tidal Wave of Personalized, Agentic AI Scams

I’ve been the target of several scam attempts recently.

The first was a text message:

Hey Dad when you have a moment please save my new line and text me on +1(650)2507384, I accidentally dropped my phone in water. I’m texting you from the man in the repair stores phone

This arrived via iMessage from a Moroccan phone number. Apple helpfully flagged it as potential spam. It’s the kind of scam most of us recognize instantly—generic, impersonal, spray-and-pray. The scammer sends this to thousands of numbers hoping a few parents will panic and respond. It’s crude, but it works often enough to be profitable.

When AI Builds AI: The Feedback Loop That Changes Everything

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When AI Builds AI

Inspired by MC Escher

Here are two numbers that, taken together, should give anyone in technology pause.

The first: according to METR’s time horizon benchmark, Claude Opus 4.6 can now successfully complete software tasks that take skilled human engineers over 14 hours—roughly a 3x jump from Claude Opus 4.5’s roughly 5-hour mark just a few months earlier.

The second: Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Instagram, recently stated at the Cisco AI Summit that approximately 95% of Claude Code is now written by Claude itself. Boris Cherny, who leads Claude Code development, told Fortune he hasn’t personally written a line of code in over two months—while shipping over 250 pull requests in a single month, all written by Claude.

AGI: We Almost There? Does it Matter?

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AGI: Are We Almost There?

Why That’s the Wrong Question to Ask

When I was young, my family would pile into our GMC truck and head across the country. In the pre-cellphone era, there wasn’t much for kids to do except stare out the window and think, or read a book. I loved the feeling of movement and uncertainty of what lay ahead. I also now appreciate how those trips trapped our family together for hours where we could talk about anything and everything. Sometimes disagreements broke out. Sometimes we had magical moments of shared insight. In the end, we always got to our destination together.

Deliberating on the Developer's Dilemma

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Deliberating on the Developer’s Dilemma

The advice used to be “learn to code.” For two decades, it was the closest thing to a guaranteed path to a good career. Now AI codes too. What happens to the people who took that advice? What should you do if you were one of them?

I’ve spent decades in this industry—writing code, managing developers, building teams around the assumption that good programmers were scarce and valuable. Parts of that assumption are eroding. Not slowly, not theoretically, but right now, in ways I can see in my own daily work. Sure, it’s not perfect yet, but AI coding agents are already building features that would have taken days or weeks, and the math of developer value is changing fundamentally.

8 Shifts in the Post-Scarcity Development Paradigm

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Eight Shifts in the Post-Scarcity Development Paradigm

Back in my heavy coding days, a long lunch always came with a side of guilt. I had code to write. I was compelled to optimize my time. I chased that flow state, the feeling of accomplishment when a gnarly, complex task finally yielded. It was more than just a job; it was a sense of purpose and responsibility. My company and colleagues were depending on every precious hour of my developer time. My subsequent career in management was all about building systems to manage that developer scarcity—to keep my teams as focused, productive, and happy as possible. My workplaces have been organized around the dearth of the particular resources required to type in syntactically correct computer commands that can automate complex tasks.

AI Cowork

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Beyond Code: The Rise of the AI Agent Coworker

I’ve been on the AI tool merry-go-round for a while now, juggling the likes of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, NotebookLM, and Grok. But a few months ago, my work truly transformed with the adoption of Claude Code. Though I’m an engineer by trade, my day-to-day role had shifted away from the keyboard. Claude Code brought me back to my roots in a really delightful way. I estimate I’ve generated over a million lines of code in the last few months since I started using it, often while multi-tasking. It felt less like using a tool and more like having a talented, tireless intern (or three) working for me 24/7.