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The engineering/ai tag contains notes and content related to AI systems — it’s distinctly more LLM- and tooling-oriented than, say, engineering/data, which focuses more on data science and engineering.

Recent Posts

  • On Dead Math and Small Pickles

    — To understand why OpenAI completely upended the world of mathematics with its proof that Navier-Stokes is not smooth in three dimensions, you must first understand that cucumbers of any size can be properly pickled.

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  • Software Gardening

    — Garden-inspired development as a non-sinister, people-centric way to think about post-LLM software development

  • Security Alert: Softlock and ACE via Natural Language Overload

    — I think I’ve found a pretty large CVE that has gone without a formal report, despite absolutely saturating the field of software engineering. It’s subtle and…

  • Working with Valves: Understanding the Structure of "Flat" Organizations

    — Many an engineer has heard tales of Valve's "flat" organization structure — what is fact, what is fiction, and how does it actually work? An annotated copy of the 2012 First Edition of Valve's Employee Handbook.

  • Agentic Programming as Theory Building

    — Do humans have a role in software development anymore? Absolutely — but we need to rethink what it means to program. An modern review of Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"

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Forward links

  • #data

    One of the things that lights my brain up is bring able to process, analyze, and visualize cool datasets. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to be able to make a…

Backlinks

  • The Season of Stamps

    The kickoff post for my Season of Stamps: exploring new places, meeting new people, and putting the final stamp of approval on a back catalog of projects worth publishing.

  • Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow

    Annotations for Greiner's 1972 paper "Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow", about the structural composition of organizations at different sizes and requirements.

  • #systems

    The Season of Systems is the (long overdue) follow-up to Season of Rhythm. A lot of this season is focused around developing both personal systems — organizing…

  • #python

    For much of my early career, I worked primarily in Python for data science, analysis, and engineering. While I don’t use it as much anymore, it’s a handy tool…