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Claude Code for data work

Claude Code is a coding tool, but it’s also an everything tool

On strategy, good and bad (mostly bad)

The many obstacles to forming and writing good strategy

How LLMs are trained for function calling

A journey through the history of tool use methods

Agentic AI runs on tools

And what agentic means, in the first place

The stubborn persistence of online-offline inconsistency

The most preventable bugs are surely the most infuriating

The Monty Hall problem: The golden goat variation

Bayesian reasoning through a fun twist on the classic puzzle

Can machines think?

On stochastic parrots, generalization, and the subsumption conjecture

Postmortem anti-patterns

10 behaviors that prevent us from learning the right lessons, and a few principles for having better postmortems

The duality of tech debt and vendor debt

Why I say "no" to most vendors even if I believe their product would improve my tech stack

When static datasets lead to static ideas

Why I left the beaten path for my position bias in features paper