How to Learn AI
Several friends have asked me recently how to learn AI. Here's my honest answer: start using it. For anything. And everything.
Kam Lasater | Professional Explorer Blog
Kam Lasater | Professional Explorer Blog
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Types of AI Software Systems
Grid of types of systems in columns and attributes in rows
Crawl Walk Run
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Findings from giving 15 LLMs personality disorder tests
I gave 15 popular LLM models the PID-5 personality assessment at least 10 times each. 9 out of 15 LLMs had clinically significant personality findings. More details at www.personalitybenchmark.ai
Junior Developers - Best of Times Worst of Times
Thoughts and Such
On Vibe Coding
Software Engineer Laid Back with hand behind his head and also on his keyboard
AI Engineer Summit - Some Thoughts
Thoughts and Such
AI Engineer Worlds Fair - Some Thoughts
Thoughts and Such
AWS Resource Tags
AWS is great. AWS resource tags suck.
Cyclic is Shutting Down
Cyclic Logo
The Answer is to Deploy Now
In software value is produced by features running in production. Let’s assume a team delivers on average one feature per unit of time. We will call it team velocity. We can plot their feature delivery curve.
Using Slack as an Searchable Event Stream Database
When building a startup I rarely have the time to build software in the way I think of as correct. I find particular pleasure when simple solutions can be "good enough" using Slack as a searchable event stream DB is one of those solutions.
2023 - A Look Back
A look back at 2023
Managing Service Account JSON Files or Files with Secrets in Nodejs
Locked vault
The Unbuilt Software Trap
There are three types of software that any company runs. The forth type is never built.
Users Are the Best Feature
With users a product is alive and useful. Without them the product is useless.
The Right KPIs
Graph of new visitors to site
One Ship Sails East
Sailing ships sailing east and west in rough seas
Talking About Failure
Awwww snap!
How to Get Your First Developer Job
A few tips to increasing your odds of landing your first professional developer job.