Kam Lasater | Professional Explorer Blog

Several friends have asked me recently how to learn AI.

Here are some rules of thumb for how AI software systems are named.

Everyone wants an agent that can do the work at their company.

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.

Best of Times - Worst of Times For Junior Developers it is the best of times and it is the worst of times...

Vibe coding is sitting back and letting the LLM drive.

Agent definition from arize talk Router - classify prompt to Skill - aka Tool Memory - store notes Jevons Paradox Asserting that compute will exhibit jevons paradox style expansion in overall market size for reductions in price implies you believe somethi…

Interesting conference vibes.

AWS is incredibly powerful.

Dear Users, We are shutting down Cyclic.

In software value is produced by features running in production.

When building a startup I rarely have the time to build software in the way I think of as correct.

Timeline Q1: Fundraising Q2: Deep technical work Q3: Pricing, Customer Growth Q4: Scrambling to find a survival path What worked Pushed hard on coding and delivering value for users/customer.

In our journey as Node.js developers, we often deal with various external services such as Google Cloud or Firebase.

Everyone fails at software they don't build There are three types of software systems that any company runs.

As an engineer I like to talk about the features of a product.

Chasing the wrong KPI is like chasing a mirage of water in the desert.

When I was a younger I went on several rock climbing and mountaineering expeditions.

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox But to every mind there openeth, A way, and way, and away, A high soul climbs the highway, And the low soul gropes the low, And in between on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro.

I've hired roughly 30 developers where the job would be their first professional position as a developer.