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Yes, the Bitter Lesson will eventually be true. So what?

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Don't Build Shovels, Get the Gold

In the AI gold rush, everyone's building shovels. Go mine for gold instead.

Is there a Multicultural Advantage in AI?

Vibe first, Engineer at the point of maintenance

Escapades with AI - How would you eat an elephant?

Perfect Test Isolation using Database Transactions

Software Engineering (for small teams) with Agentic AI

Escapades with AI - The Volkswagen

A Reality Check on "The New Code"

Searching for RH Counterexamples in Golang - Search Strategies

Searching for RH Counterexamples in Golang - Superabundant Numbers

The most "painful" analysis that I've ever done

Searching for RH Counterexamples in Golang - Adding a Database

Plagiarism Detection in Competitive Programming

Searching for RH Counterexamples in Golang - Improving Performance

Searching for RH Counterexamples in Golang - Setting up

Tracking Personal Expenses for Fun (and Future!)

Duolingo Automatic Streak Save

Optimizing Grafana Queries With Elasticsearch

Reinstalling OSX Recovery Partition from a bricked MacBook Pro

AWS Instance type recommender for optimal resource packing

Building a Streamlit app from scratch and deploying it for free using Heroku

Bodybuilder - A python port of the nodeJS BodyBuilder Package

Introducing compareDF

MTConnect Webinar Example