SF is fun because the whole city rebrands for every wave.
You get all new billboards, social events, signs on buildings, everything.

then 2 years later all the executives get fired, fail upwards, and nothing changes day to day. you still gotta eat, sleep, go to work. a few apps have different names

One thing they don't warn you about living in San Francisco is that every 2 or 3 years you get a huge "OMG THIS TECH CHANGES EVERYTHING" wave

it's exhausting

Cool thing about UCSF is that you can read relevant papers with your surgeon as the lead author

Well I might have to do another surgery in a few months.

Cartilage wasn’t good enough to put back so they took it out and are growing a new piece for me. But if turns out I’m fine without, then all good

Knee surgery went well. Sounds like I might be back to normal in a week or so 🤘

was worried about the 6 weeks of crutches option

Trying a new experiment:
At the beginning of a project (to automate a task), every engineer spends one hour doing the job.

then they keep doing this every week

project is done when your grumpy engineers don’t hate doing the work

Love it! Now I need to read Weizenbaum

dead-on feels like a quick shot
angle feels cinematic

computer disease

Great read. Gets at the heart of why I don’t use LLMs for writing but I do for coding

ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Turns out building an app is easier the 2nd time. Who knew

I like this version too

Now if people actually read their email …

Well that was fast – surgery Tuesday. The US health system may be expensive but it sure works fast (for injuries).

good thing I just started playing Crimson Desert. something to do while I lie on the couch after

my favorite is listening to a room full of engineers talking about how to get their agents to write good code

and I'm thinking "Ahh you sound just like all those papers people wrote in the 80's and 90's about big system architecture"

nature is healing

I find that some people are just allergic to reading. Will literally spend 20 minutes painstakingly watching a video instead of 5min reading the article

I’m more worried about the cartilage to be honest. That could have forever consequences

To be fair to the leg press I made this a lot worse by ignoring it for 3 weeks

TIL a heavy leg press can really mess you up
See that dark area? That’s a bone bruise.
And that missing bit in front is a piece of cartilage that sheared clean off. 6mm by 16mm

only question is what kind of surgery

We have existing rules for this. Companies are liable for the actions of their employees.

Litmus test for AGI:
it's not agi until the provider accepts liability for its actions

we accidentally built-in a gotcha:
The AI isn't able to read these docs for some reason. I think vendor blocks scrapers

surprised how long it takes people to realize

If you run the code instead of assuming autocomplete was right, you’re top 5%

I’ve been trying a new interview format that asks candidates to implement a smol realistic task. Full access to AI, internet, everything.

At this point I’m convinced that just reading API docs puts you in the top 10% of software engineers

I don't know who needs to hear this but most AI maximalists make money when you buy more tokens.

They don't care about outcomes. They just want you to buy and produce tokens. Volume wins

sundays are so fuckin long without running 😩
what do people do all day

I like this in principle but holy shit does “200 here 300 there” add up quickly

Been really noticing it lately 😅
Yes yes net worth is fine its the cashflow that goes ouch

stakeholder gives config
I ask LLM to build
just works

Why make complex CMS + database + flexible code, if stakeholder could just change code with 1 button 🤔

So one of my core design principles is to turn config into data. Let stakeholders manage their stuff, write my code to be flexible.

But lately I've been using LLMs to copypasta a repetitive piece of code for new configs (celery schedule + python task) and it's ... fine??