Hopefully, at this point, you see where I’m going with this. What I’ve concluded, based on experience, is that positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how hard you work. The problem is, when you build an alternative implementation, you’ve ... See more

The need for better AI or LLM-specific infrastructure, along with the host of problems that come with non-deterministic of LLMs, means that there’s more software work ahead of us, not less. Abstraction layers like LLMs create more possibilities and thus, more work.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I’m not sure.

A great example of this is frontend... See more

A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. [...] No matter what language you work in, programming in a functional style provides benefits. You should do it whenever it is convenient, and you should think hard about the decision when it isn’t

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