Hey it has been a while. I really wanted to post something to back pedal on the last post Just One More Prompt Let s just say something happened in December of 2025 that the tool calling and the long-running agents has finally became stable. I m all in on Agentic Engineering (vibe coding) again. I was wrong, Continue reading Getting Used to Being Wrong
Why do drug dealers and software companies both call their customers users ? Not all of us have been enamored with the token spewing monster that has taken over the entire discourse around productivity . I ll admit that I ve been waffling between the idea that it s so over and we re so back around generative artificial intelligence (GENAI). Continue reading Just One More Prompt
We started this project about a year ago. We thought it would be easy. There was an event GOAT CONF ONE where we were doing a hackathon for the GENAi Photo booth. Chuck er Renan Barbosa commented this was too easy. Boasting we should do the Jetracer from NVIDIA also known as Project Leatherback. It Continue reading A YEAR INTO THE HACKATHON `24
Introduction New coding tools always face the same reaction: immediate adoption by some, outright dismissal by coding purists. This pattern repeats with every technological leap. Vibe coding is already here and soon we ll just call it coding. Just like we dropped smart from smartphones, the distinction between AI-assisted and traditional coding is rapidly disappearing. Continue reading Microwaving…
Welcome to the world. You are a beta tester. No, you do not get an employee discount. Thanks, keep moving. How dare you not run the latest version of my software. Gold Masters We used to have to have real discipline with shipping software. We didn t ship docker containers, we shipped real containers! If you Continue reading Perpetual Beta
You would figure that the namesake of this website would have a post about it. Welcome to the Command Pattern. I first read about it in the famous Gang of Four book [Gamma et al] Notes This design pattern is useful to implement scripting and undo/redo behavior. Updates: Prerequisites Explanations Definitions If I had Continue reading The Command Pattern [BETA]
A kitchen sink post. Gotta ❤ them. Thank you so much for your attention. Share if you like what the GOATs have done over the past months! GOAT CONF ONE Silicon Graphics Rabbit Hole Leaving Qualcomm Finishing the Master s Degree CRYPTIDE RESEARCH LLC Wayback machine has me in 1999! Pretty much same services, but focusing Continue reading July 2024 Bulk Update
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So as a semi-unemployed individual, I have a new project is brewing. The Robot Development Lab (RDL) will launch in August of 2024. We will begin accepting applications at GOAT CONF ONE! We need a multi-disciplinary team and will start with smaller robots and simulated robots before we move you on to the big leagues Continue reading Next Week, We Build
As an older gentle-person, I ve seen the marketing change over time for describing what computer programmers do. When I was child it was Rapid Application Development or RAD. I think this is best term. I like the extreme sports nature of it and it fits with the title of this post. Agile is a modern Continue reading Freestyle Development