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Ayman Nadeem | Building Nuanced, an AI coding product. Writing about software development, programmi...

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Building Nuanced, an AI coding product. Writing about software development, programming languages, and human-AI interaction. Previously a senior engineer at GitHub.

About | Ayman Nadeem

https://www.aymannadeem.com/about/

Building Nuanced, an AI coding product. Writing about software development, programming languages, and human-AI interaction. Previously a senior engineer at GitHub.

Plan mode is dead | Ayman Nadeem

24 Sep 2026

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead.html

Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.

I am hospitalized with a high-risk pregnancy. Here’s how running a startup is going. | Ayman Nadeem

28 Jun 2026

https://www.aymannadeem.com/startups,/founders/2026/06/28/hospitalized-high-risk-pregnancy-running-a-startup.html

Last week, I launched my new product from my hospital room in the antepartum unit.

Vibe coding to Chomksy: will linguistics pop off in a world full of prompting? | Ayman Nadeem

01 Aug 2025

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/programming/languages/2025/08/01/vibe-coding-to-chomsky.html

Like many developers, I’ve spent most of the past year vibe coding. Across the many tools I’ve tried, my workflow looks something like this: I prompt AI agents in natural-language and hope they make the edits I want. When it works, it feels like sorcery. When it fails, I’m left spelunking through probabilistic misfires, trying to reverse-engineer why the model chose a broken string-replace instead of the obvious refactor.

Grammar Aligned Decoding: the good and bad | Ayman Nadeem

05 Dec 2024

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/coding,/programming/2024/12/05/grammar-aligned-decoding.html

LLMs continue to push the boundaries of content generation, but they can struggle when the output needs to follow very strict rules, like writing code, generating formulas, or creating markup languages (like JSON or HTML). This begs the question: how do we generate highly structured outputs that are both grammatically correct and also contextually meaningful?

Abstracting Denotational Interpreters: A Summary | Ayman Nadeem

02 Dec 2024

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/coding,/programming/2024/12/02/abstracting-denotational-interpreters.html

I’ve been diving back into static analysis and programming language theory after a 4 year hiatus. Getting re-acquainted with papers in the field has been humbling, and can feel like solving a puzzle with infinite pieces. Writing and summarizing helps me make sense of it all, so I wanted to share my thoughts on a new paper I just read: “Abstracting Denotational Interpreters” by Graf, Peyton Jones, and Keidel. Here’s a summary of what I’ve been working through.

How I lied to myself for 10 months—and why I finally pivoted. | Ayman Nadeem

23 Nov 2024

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/coding,/programming/2024/11/23/how-I-stopped-lying-to-myself-and-finally-pivoted.html

During YC, the group partners’ constant refrain about remaining intellectually honest and prioritizing customers needs seemed almost redundant. Yet I fell into the very trap they had repeatedly warned against—a humbling reminder that even the clearest advice can’t immunize us against our own blind spots.

The Cognitive Impact of AI Coding | Ayman Nadeem

20 Nov 2024

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/coding,/programming/2024/11/20/the-cognitive-impact-of-AI-coding.html

I started using Copilot as a GitHub employee when it first emerged, long before it was available publicly. I found myself skeptical. The early versions felt noisy and distracting—auto-complete suggestions caused more interruption than inspiration. The user experience fundamentally scattered my attention and focus, something that was not only difficult for my attention deficit mind to sustain, but also something I had worked for years to cultivate as an engineer.

AI Governance Alone Won’t Save Us | Ayman Nadeem

31 Oct 2023

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/regulation,/trust/and/safety/2023/10/31/AI-governance-alone-wont-save-us.html

On October 30, 2023, while President Biden issued the Executive Order to create AI safeguards, I spoke on a panel for the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) conference, Online Platforms and Popular Technologies 2023: Legal and Regulatory Responses to Technology Innovations and Uses.