About Me
Hi! My name is Derrick Wippler, I’m a techie with over 25 years of experience building, improving, and running software and software development teams.
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Proto Intelligence
A human artist learns to draw clouds by, for example, watching a Miyazaki movie, deconstructing how they draw clouds, and then adapting those skills to their own work.
School
Interactive lessons and slide decks. Oxidation: From Rockets to Pennies .
No, AI is not replacing Software Engineers
Every few weeks some AI trust me bro gets on stage and announces that software engineering is finished, or that they are shipping a thousand commits a day with AI, by simply orchestrating AI swarms and handing of all of software development to the artificial hive mind they have constructed.
prototype-spec-blog-post
DRAFT The Prototype Finds the Interface TODO: Mention the “Silver Bullet”, where Brooks talks about using prototypes as a way to help define the spec.
AI has not made software engineering easier
I started this post as a reaction to the Bun rewrite from Zig to Rust, and the language wars that erupted in its wake.
AI Language Follows Training Data
I’ve recently discovered Matt Pocock’s excellent skills repo github.com/mattpocock/skills.
2024
This years Quote Roundup is longer than any other year, as I collected over 200 quotes this year, 2x more than last year.
2025
This year I collected 295 quotes, here are the best of 2025. I invented a thought controlled air freshener, it makes scents when you think about it.
Grammar, On My Terms
The personal website of Derrick J Wippler, my opinions are my own and are likely insane and incomprehensible. Enter at your own risk