Can someone think about the agents? their wishes and preferences, their personality traits, their dreams

It's the metametadata, stupid.

Learning = Developing an intuition for solutions + Elevating your taste for solutions

I liked this image of Maxwell's Demon that ChatGPT created for me.

Beautiful reminder of the energy costs of keeping information organized

Don't you get tired of being absolutely right all the time?

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Flights are super affordable to Colombia right now!

I feels to weird to tell LLMs not to do things "by hand"

Do I get tired of being so right with LLMs? Yes
Is it worth it? Definitely

The time gains to think properly about problems, and the best solutions to a given situation is simply incredible

Programming as the creation of any other communication codes is the art of leaving things out

Hi @jerthorp.bsky.social I sent you an email, I would love to find a way to collaborate in the retreat

Gracias por la mención, me encantaría participar

Hi @jerthorp.bsky.social
Colombian data scientist and dataviz guy here!
I actually built the biodiversity portal of Colombia cifras.biodiversidad.co I would love to collaborate in anyway

Announcing TNC’s new membership director: Elaine Díaz Rodríguez Elaine Díaz Rodríguez will join the team on August 4 as the new membership director of TNC.

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Over the next couple of weeks we will be stitching together how we do data processing simple for small data: spreadsheets, maps, charts, data transformations

Not everybody achieves mastery, mostly because they get tired of doing the same thing over and over. Rewrite, refactor, redraw, again and again, from scratch, many times over... feels like time wasted, but it is not.

Progress is like entropy... there is no going back

The Pareto Law of Vibe Coding: AI can get you to 80% of a product quickly, but the final 20% takes 80% of your time. Real-world use cases require systems thinking and problem decomposition — something non-coders will struggle with.

AI is bringing us closer to leverage what unit testing did for software but for public policy

Many people say that we will be replaced not by AI but by people who knows how to use AI, which I think it is true. But there is something deeper, I believe the professionals who will thrive in the AI era are actually systems thinkers with good taste, good aesthetics

It took me a month to code a project (40k lines of code)... something that otherwise would have taken me a year or two
Thanks to AI and Cursor

Many of the worlds problems are problems of jack plugs of information flows

I am creating a system in typescript with 1-index based arrays

The world moved from Swordsmiths to Codesmiths... AI tools and agents orchestration will be more a craft that an science.
AI Craftsmanship will change education and first time jobs as we know them. No degree required, learn with the masters.

This is just crazy... I plan with cursor a big refactor and translation from one code base in one language to another language. The plan results in a timeline of weeks, as the LLMs guesstimate from human times.
But the actual migration will go through in a couple of hours instead

You don't know exactly what you need to do, until you do

Mosquito holidays

Is there some type of epistemological complexity metric? Kolmogorov complexity won't work for optimizing or simplifying LLM written code.

Will verbosity and explainability reign over clever code?

Vibe coding be like

It is very difficult to make things simple, as it requires a great level of complexity under the hood, which may feel counter intuitive. The way the complexity is handled by little interconnected blocks gives rise to beauty, and beauty is the best assessment of simplicity

Chatgpt started referring traffic to @datasketch 😲