Sean Goedecke's Blog
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- Sean Goedecke's Blog
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- Sean Goedecke's blog at seangoedecke.com — staff engineer essays on LLMs, careers, and the inside view of working at GitHub and Zendesk
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- blog, llm, software-engineering
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- 2026-05-17
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- 2026-05-17
Sean Goedecke is a staff engineer at GitHub (previously Zendesk) writing at seangoedecke.com. His posts split between two strands:
- Inside-view career and craft writing. What it's like to ship features people complain about, how individual-engineer agency really works at scale, what staff-engineer work looks like at large companies.
- LLM and interpretability writing. Steering vectors, AI safety framings, philosophy-of-mind angles on interpretability, observations on how local-model tooling is shifting.
Style: short, opinionated, first-person, comfortable saying "I think" and "I'm skeptical." Frames topics in terms of who actually pays attention to them — "labs vs users vs the middle class" framing recurs. Often footnotes a counterpoint or a personal disclaimer rather than dropping it in-line.
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- working-on-products-people-hate — Why individual engineers have limited control over product perception, and why that's okay (2026-04-06)
- steering-vectors-interesting-again — Why steering has stayed a middle-class technique and what DwarfStar 4 changes (2026-05-17)
Ingested articles
- not-understanding-your-codebase — why partial understanding is the honest baseline in large codebases, and theory-building is one value among many (July 2026)
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