# What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?

> A long thread of the posts that actually changed how working engineers think.

- Type: signal
- Published: 2026-07-08
- Topics: ai-news, reading
- Source: Simon Willison — https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/14/influences/
- Canonical: https://cmlonder.com/signals/influential-blog-posts

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A long thread of the posts that genuinely changed how working engineers
think, which is a different list from the posts that were popular. Worth
reading for the pattern as much as the links: almost none of them are
tutorials, and almost all of them reframe something the reader already
knew.