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Somewhere in a system I built there is a description of a man named Dave. It says he escalates under stress and needs the context up front or he digs in. It’s accurate. I wrote it, more or less, by asking for help dealing with him. Dave has no idea. I’ll come back to Dave. First, what I was trying to build when I wrote that down about him. An outcome worth having Picture a thirty…
When your economic doctrine fails, you don’t revise it. You theologize it. And then you find some heretics. Peter Thiel sold out four private lectures about the Antichrist. In San Francisco. In 2025. By invitation only. No recordings allowed. Eight hours of lectures delivered to paying guests in a room full of people who make their living building surveillance software and betting on…
AI that doesn’t learn is just an expensive auto-complete.
This post is sure to make me wildly unpopular in some circles… that’s ok, I’m saying what I think and I’m not too concerned about being popular. The collective angst of the software development profession over AI software development is cringe worthy. The cringe exists in two dimensions, elitism and OUTRAGE that the disruption has come for ME!!! All quotes have had the author…
In the last 2 weeks I’ve “written” 4 applications with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini or some combination of the 3… including an application to replace Apple Calendar that integrates directly with the Google Calendar API, Claude, and a custom MCP / RAG service enabling an AI in calendar assistant. Most of these were personal productivity applications that - while I’ve…