GenAI can be so incredibly useful and powerful in contexts where information/best practices are widely known and disseminated but potentially tricky to apply to a specific use-case.

I had an incredible ChatGPT session yesterday applying some Deep Work / Focus / Strategy concepts to specific situations at work. Left with some concrete next-steps for myself plus a bunch of new concepts to research more.

Oh this is so good.

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If you are replacing great engineers with AI, please let me know.

We’d love to hire those great engineers!

Today I discovered Pandoc. My life will never be the same.

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Absolutely rooting for Yuki this weekend.

What’s particularly ironic is that today’s Google has become exactly what its founders warned against in their 1998 paper: an advertising company whose business model fundamentally conflicts with serving users’ needs.

“The Mediocrity of Modern Google”

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The Gemma 3 models are just crazy good for their size.

Apple should be partnering with Google to provide these models for their on-device usage.

Not sure how it is that I hadn’t come across this (ReAct / Thought, Action, PAUSE, Observation) before today, but it suddenly made some Gemma 3 experiments I was playing with tremendously more reliable.

LocalLLMs are fun!

For me, the act of writing code provides a certain kind of feedback mechanism, helping me gauge how well I truly understand the problem I’m trying to solve. Increased friction/resistance in finding the best solution in code means I’m out of phase with the problem in some way, and need to think on it more. Code generation tools modify or eliminate that feedback loop, and I find that disorienting at best.

It’s always great when present me gets to thank past me for taking notes (and putting them into the readme) on how to debug some library I made overly complicated.

Being able to run LLMs locally is really, really cool. Once products catch up with the functionality available there are going to be some really cool use-cases.

“The hardest working font in Manhattan”

What a fun deep-dive into this old, seemingly ubiquitous and hard-working font. Exactly the kind of thing Blogs are best at.