Human-Shaped Problems
ValentinaEssays on the parts of work that don't fit on a slide
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Lovely Batch, Slightly Too Many Agents
Greetings from the current technological moment. 5 stars, would visit again.
I opened the Y Combinator list. Sixty percent of it is the word “agent.” I scrolled for the other forty. I did not find it.
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Obsidian for Feathers
My daughter runs a shop in Minecraft. She charges ten thousand for a block of obsidian and a hundred and thirty for feathers, because obsidian is a pain to mine and feathers fall off chickens — which is, as far as I can tell, the only econo...
There Is Probably no Spec
I have never written a PRD I believed in.
I’m telling you this because I built a thing, and now I have to explain why, and this is the part where a perfectly normal person starts to sound like a man in a linen shirt saying “operating syste...
The Job That Doesn't Have a Name Yet
The first time I went into our codebase through Cursor, I emerged after an hour with a beautiful, coherent, completely wrong understanding of how the system worked.
Pepper’s Ghost, 1862. The audience sees the magic. The engineer under the...
The Work That Looks Like Luck
This morning I conducted an audit of my sock drawer and found twenty-three of them in there. Twenty-three is a prime number, indivisible, and in this case, unfortunately, odd. Which means that somewhere in the apartment or in the interdimen...
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