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the more I talk with people, the more I realize there's a common pattern in each conversation. they all have rabbit holes. each rabbit hole becomes a fun place to take both of us, we start by chatting about dating apps, and we end up talking about the algorithms that drive them. to end up taking about something completely different after. the common pattern i see is like navigating a tree. as you…
something has changed. we now stop thinking, we just prompt. i stopped to ponder what my colleagues asked. what my friends asked. i go into this little chat box in my laptop, or phone. type their question, get something legible, reply back. like a parrot, a vessel for the oroborous. i still want to learn. i want to feel challenged. to grow, to feel the pain of failure. and to overcome it. feeling…
I just read Derek Sivers article on being offline , and this part shook me. Last month, I moved into my new home in the woods. There’s no internet and no phone service here. It’s so productive. At first I thought I couldn’t move in without internet. But now I prefer it this way. Problems I used to punt, I now solve on my own. It’s voluntary, like weightlifting. My brain feels stronger because I…
Being in Japan has taught me that we can elevate the mundane to the spiritual realm. I was just at a shoe store, buying some Onitsuka Tiger shoes, like probably most tourists in Japan, and I was impressed how the store attendant re-organized the shoes neatly the moment I left my seat for 5 seconds. Another time, I was a temple, and when I took off my shoes and put on the slippers, the host rotated…
I am addicted, yes, addicted to the auto-complete, the coding agents, the fast, dopamine-infused, coding flow with Cursor. I no longer think about what I write. I only review code and push it. I can't remember the last time I wrote a program without using AI. It started two to three years ago with Copilot. When I first used it, I thought about what I wrote. Copilot would write most of it, but I…
I just used LLMs for about 3 days to do an at-home challenge. My experience was that I "de-activated" my brain during most of it, I kept hammering at the prompt over and over, and ended up solving through mere persistence and increasing the context; not by skill. I used Claude Opus 4, Gemini Pro 2.5, and Chat GPT o3 via the chat interface and Cursor using the MAX models. The chat-based models were…
There’s no mythical person that knows everything you don’t. Impostor syndrome can happen when we think we we’re not good enough to do a job. We think everyone around us is smarter, faster, more connected. This prevent us from moving ahead, we paralyze and decide not to do anything because it’s not worth it. It can happen when you first try to learn something, you research what to learn and become…
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