# Sean Goedecke's Blog

Sean Goedecke is a staff engineer at GitHub (previously Zendesk) writing at [seangoedecke.com](https://www.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.

## Ingested articles

- [[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)

## Related

- [[individual-engineer-agency]]
- [[steering-vectors]]
- [[abliteration]]