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Not apparent
“Are you sure you want to move to San Francisco?” my dad asked me as we drove home from the electrical supply store.
“It’s where all the jobs are, and where all the interesting stuff is happening.” It was 2012 and I was three days post-gra...
A societal failure on all levels
I’ve been in SF for the last week to attend Stripe Sessions. It’s been a very long time since I’ve been here. The last time I can recall visiting was in 2022 for a team offsite while I was still working at Stripe. It’s been a very emotional...
AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement
I work for a company that does AI, and so I’ve been neck-deep in lots of AI projects over the past few years. I’ve had a ChatGPT subscription, and more recently I use Claude. I’m downright marinating in AI.
The most remarkable thing I disc...
Happier development
I have been marinating in some ideas for a few weeks now after having conversations with my manager. I suspect these suggestions will be disagreeable to a lot of folks, but hear me out.
What I’ve been feeling
The past few months have b...
The imminent risk of vibe coding
A few months ago I was noticing a dramatic uptick in the amount of Cursor-y code1 we were seeing go up for review on the repo I help oversee. The problem, really, is that the code had a distinct set of smells to it, but it was really tricky...
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