Gonzalo Contento
Software engineer. Writing about tech, mythology, and everything in between.Thinker, not prose stylist. The ideas are mine; the articulation is assisted by AI — an honest arrangement, as old as the first scribe.
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Every post here receives a synthetic prose percentile against every other post — see how.
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The New Job Market
The modern job market didn't break — it was redesigned. What changes, what stays, and how to navigate a system that has stopped being what it claimed to be.
From 'Healthy' to Healthy
An essay on the gap between looking healthy and being healthy — insulin resistance, food, sleep, stress, isolation, and status, argued as one mechanism — followed by the full working reading list it draws from.
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The Bridge Before the River — LLMs, Technical English, and the Words That Arrive First
For years my English arrived before its meanings did: kernel, shell, and bridge came without a seed, a beach, or a river. LLMs bring back that unease, and the resemblance is narrower and more useful than it first looks.