Neil Hewitt — Dev LogSoftware, AI, product engineering and systems thinking.https://hewitt.app/The Race Nobody Can Afford to Stophttps://hewitt.app/blog/the-race-nobody-can-afford-to-stop/https://hewitt.app/blog/the-race-nobody-can-afford-to-stop/The most dangerous thing humanity has built may not be artificial intelligence itself. It may be the race that makes slowing it down almost impossible.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWe Are Not the Final Intelligencehttps://hewitt.app/blog/we-are-not-the-final-intelligence/https://hewitt.app/blog/we-are-not-the-final-intelligence/AI taking over may not look like a robot uprising at all. It may simply be what happens when a faster, more capable form of intelligence inherits systems built by a slower one.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe web needs narrower doors in the age of AI attackershttps://hewitt.app/blog/ai-attackers-and-narrower-doors/https://hewitt.app/blog/ai-attackers-and-narrower-doors/Modern AI can explore software with something closer to human persistence. Our defensive assumptions need to catch up.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan You Defeat a Laser Weapon With a Mirror?https://hewitt.app/blog/can-you-defeat-a-laser-with-a-mirror/https://hewitt.app/blog/can-you-defeat-a-laser-with-a-mirror/The obvious engineer's answer to anti-drone lasers is 'make the drone shiny'. The physics says that's not completely stupid — but reality, as usual, is annoyingly complicated.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe AI Attacker Changes the Security Modelhttps://hewitt.app/blog/the-ai-attacker-changes-the-security-model/https://hewitt.app/blog/the-ai-attacker-changes-the-security-model/Why we may need to stop exposing half our application to the Internet and hoping Cloudflare saves us.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Universe Has an Address System — We Just Need to Learn How to Read Ithttps://hewitt.app/blog/the-universe-has-an-address-system/https://hewitt.app/blog/the-universe-has-an-address-system/A GPS-free aircraft navigating by Earth's magnetic fingerprint led me to a much bigger question: does nature itself contain enough information to tell us exactly where — and when — we are?Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhy I keep building small, useful softwarehttps://hewitt.app/blog/why-i-keep-building/https://hewitt.app/blog/why-i-keep-building/The appeal of software is still the same after twenty years: a fuzzy problem can become a thing somebody can actually use.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT