You gained wisdom, maybe? Rants about people and technology.
Yet Another How I Did A Thing With An LLM Post Leaning into my awesome leadership skillz and laziness of reading documentation, I decided to practice the last marketable skill and write code using LLM as the majority contributor. I used opencode and its default, free model, Big Pickle . This is a postmortem. Disclaimer: I have written a bunch of Go code before, but not in recent years. What was…
Managing interns, or managing for the first time
TL;DR A declarative container in a NixOS flake, with opencode in it. Opencode is a text-based chatbot thing that can directly edit your files, and it works without an IDE. R I use NixOS, because I like being able to reinstall any of the feeble machines around me when hardware inevitably fails (ie the whole of the configuration is in a git repo). There are other benefits to it (cf…
Rant around backing up your data
A common theme of engineering teams: they don't get anything done because there's always someone with the latest something , just one more question, just one more quick fix... Here are a few tips to deal with the flood. The first step is: do not accept this as normal , even if your team has resigned to interrupt hell years ago. Fix sources of noise Alerts going crazy? Support or customers feeling…
Making successful engineering proposals