Category: Culture
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On directories. And vibe coding.
I seem to have an obsession with directories. During COVID I helped build letsorder.delivery: a directory of local restaurants offer non-app delivery. Today I launched new one wpg.beer: a directory of local brewery taprooms. I’m not entirely sure where this obsession comes from. Maybe it’s nostalgia for the early web — before search engines and…
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How AI Stole My Job
The progress of technology over the course of my life has been stunning and the progress of LLMs is vastly outpacing even those previous decades of exponential progress. It’s wild! In the past two to three weeks, my entire approach to coding has been completely upended. To the point that it’s hardly even the same…
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Why would you want to drive behind a slow cyclist?
Whenever I’m engaged in a conversation and the other party is saying something that doesn’t resonate with me, something I don’t get or something that just seems strange, I make an honest effort to put myself in the other person’s shoes. I do research, thought experiments, bounce scenarios off friends, hypothesize with LLMs, etc. I…