Ramblings. Maybe useful. Maybe not.
I stopped riding my bike in November after crashing... again. Turning right off a main road and I didn't notice the gravel in the middle of the intersection and stacked it pretty hard. I hit the deck and cracked my helemt ending up with a pretty solid concussion which took a few months to get over. At the time I decided I'm never riding my bike again because I'm too prone to this happening! I went…
Since November when opus 4.5 launched and was a proper step change in the capability of coding models I've oscillated between fear/doomerism and unbridled excitement at what you can do with them. No idea where it's going to end up in terms of impact of the tech job market (and broader societal impact I guess too) but on a more narrow level it's pretty cool to see the democratisation of people…
I've loved working with computers since I was a kid and I just got it. I've been asked a few times over the years to explain how I figured out something or discovered what was really happening. I'd just shrug because I just saw the answer without knowing how or why. Large pieces of my job are gone for good. They're some pieces that I enjoyed most and brought me the most personal satisfaction. At…