You Are Going to Need It
YAGNI is an acronym for “you aren’t gonna need it.” It comes out of Extreme Programming (coined by Kent Beck), and in practice it’s another way of encouraging engineers to avoid premature optimization.
Justin Flick
Musings on Data Science/Engineering, Software Development, and Corporate Management.
Latest posts
Why I Hate LLM Confidence Scores
Hello, Reader
Build Your Own Table
A New Social Contract
OpenClaw is LangChain 2.0
We’ve Been Here Before
OpenClaw: Setup Experience and Initial Thoughts
I Was Skeptical, and Then I Wasn’t
My OpenClaw Setup Guide
This is a living document. OpenClaw is under active development, and parts of this guide will become outdated. I’ll keep it updated as the setup evolves.
Building AI Development Intuition: Lessons from Managing Agents and Debugging with LLMs
Master Your Tools Before You Chase New Ones
The Intuition Gap: AI-Assisted Coding and the Challenge of Growing Junior Engineers
The Agentic Shift Is Real
Thoughts on Technical Hiring
Philosophical Thoughts