Dress for the Slide
There's a saying in the motorcycling world: "Dress for the slide, not for the ride."
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Essays on AI, software engineering and leadership, with occasional detours through books, society and life.
Maps and Territories
AI can make you sound fluent in a domain you don’t understand. People who actually know find out very quickly. Credibility gone in the token exhaust of an LLM
Read essayArsenal and the Passage of Time
What did Arsenal winning the Premier League title teach me about applied AI?
Read essayThe Two Drivers
AI promises transformation. Transformation of the way we work, possibly the way we live and the way we organize our societies. From the utopian dreamers to
Read essayAnthropic, xAI and the Inference Moat
In Sebastian Mallaby's The Infinity Machine, Demis Hassabis is quoted as saying that he sees one lab getting to AGI. In its founding charter, OpenAI made
Read essayThree Essays About the AI Future
It's Sunday and in the spirit of the weekend, here's a somewhat off-topic post.
Read essayRunning AI in Production
I am a consultant. My job is to understand my clients' needs and help them build products to meet those needs. Over the last 3 years, the vast majority of my
Read essayThe Case for an AI Fast
A lot of software engineers are quietly miserable right now. They probably include your senior tech lead and your engineering manager.
Read essayScars From Building AI
At Jeavio, we were building AI applications back when Boris Cherny was known for his TypeScript book. We’ve had surprise OpenAI bills before “token-maxxing”
Read essayWhen Engineering Stops Saying No
There is a skit from the early 2000s BBC show Little Britain called "computer says no." A bank teller responds to a customer trying to get a loan with the
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