# Blog — Hunter Hodnett

Articles on AI, software engineering, startups, and technology.

## [Autonomous AI Product Dev Setup](/blog/autonomous-ai-dev-setup/)

*December 8, 2025*

A technical guide for operating 10 AI development machines autonomously with a KVM over IP console and Slack prompt relay.

## [The AI Fog-of-War on Software Engineering Jobs](/blog/ai-fog-of-war-on-engineering-jobs/)

*November 15, 2025*

CS fundamentals matter more than ever. AI automates grunt work, but you still need to know when the machine is wrong.

## [AI Is the Next Abstraction Layer](/blog/ai-is-the-next-abstraction-layer/)

*June 15, 2025*

Every major abstraction in computing replaced something lower-level, but we still teach the fundamentals. AI is no different.

## [MCP vs OpenAPI: What Am I Missing?](/blog/mcp-vs-openapi/)

*June 15, 2025*

Can anyone explain why MCP is better than just using an OpenAPI schema? I keep getting buzz words and I'm losing my mind.

## [What If Other Engineers Used Software Methodologies?](/blog/software-engineering-methodologies/)

*June 15, 2025*

Imagining what would happen if civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineers adopted Agile, hotfixes, and other software development methodologies.

## [AI Is Coming for Software Jobs](/blog/ai-is-coming-for-software-jobs/)

*June 15, 2025*

Anyone who thinks AI isn't coming for software jobs hasn't run a frontier model on max mode. Capital in, product out.

## [The Collapse of Builder.ai](/blog/collapse-of-builder-ai/)

*May 20, 2025*

An analysis of Builder.ai's collapse from $1B unicorn to insolvency — examining inflated sales, audit failures, and leadership issues.

## [Christianity's Truth vs. the "Opiate of the Masses"](/blog/christianity-truth-defense/)

*April 21, 2025*

A comprehensive defense of Christianity's historical foundations, examining the resurrection's centrality and C.S. Lewis's response to Marx and Freud.

## [Don't Outsource Your MVP](/blog/dont-outsource-your-mvp/)

*April 15, 2025*

Hot take from a former operator of an agency that built MVPs as a service: don't do it. Find a technical founder instead.

## [Devin Tried to Drop Our Database](/blog/devin-tried-to-drop-our-database/)

*February 15, 2025*

We asked Devin to fix placeholder text on an input. It tried to drop our database tables instead. A short cautionary tale.

## [I Showed Up to a Reddit Offsite in a Full Pirate Costume](/blog/reddit-ipo-pirate-story/)

*March 21, 2024*

Reddit IPO'd. Time for the story about the pirate-themed offsite on Angel Island where I was the only one who dressed up.

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