Patrick Desjardins Blog

This week I worked on **oktopai**, an experiment in local coding specialists.

I am experimenting with an idea called **oktopai**: instead of asking one small local model to know every programming language and framework, can I keep several focused specialists and load the right one when it is needed?

The most interesting local-LLM idea to me is not finding one enormous model that can do everything.

I have been building as a small but serious experiment: a private, play-money prediction-market platform where communities create Tribes, open markets, stake internal credits, and resolve outcomes.

AI has not just entered the workforce.

In the two previous blog posts and in , I discussed the impact of AI on software development and experimented with a new way of developing software.

A few months ago, I and within a few weeks I was taking page after page of notes using .

The web was built for humans using a browser.

I will argue that generating documentation with AI is useful, specifically the kind that lives as dedicated documentation files in folders alongside the code, and specifically for business logic and architecture.

I wrote in , , , and about TypeScript and private functions.

I recently visited and noticed a simple idea that I liked: comments do not need to live inside the website database.

I recently moved this website away from NextJS as the static generation engine.

I built an audiobook machine for my daughter in January 2022 using a Raspberry Pi and RFID cards ().

ended on a frustrating note.

I recently ran into a very practical performance problem in a study-generation pipeline.

I recently and I am taking my notes in which allows accessing notes through an API.

Early in my career, I started with VB5 and VB6 before moving to web development using PHP.

A month ago : >I’ve ended up using Codex every day.

I have been coding for over 28 years now.

Silicon Valley is an interesting place to be.

I recently had an interesting conversation with one of our VPs.

I am currently leading a squad of four engineers, and we are working in an unconventional way: one week at a time.

As AI continues to transform the development of software, we must fundamentally shift our habits to keep pace.

Today, I want to talk about how software engineering is changing with AI.

Today I want to talk about how AI is transforming meetings.

Today, I want to talk about the difference between having a vibe coding project as a side project and using the same approach at work.

I recently had many voices to generate from English text.

For a little while, I moved from ChatGPT to Gemini for questions that were not related to a specific code base.

The Dunning–Kruger effect occurs when individuals with limited knowledge in a domain believe that they have suddenly become experts in it.

User interfaces and automation have always been tricky.

At the beginning of the year, I subscribed to a year of Claude Code Pro (200$).

> The black side panels added to a horse's head during a race are primarily called blinkers (or blinders in the United States).

I have paid $20 a month for Claude Pro since the start of the year.

The more I use AI, the more I believe it represents the future of accelerated development; however, I am also increasingly wary of its tendency to "drift" in the wrong direction.

My journey into professionally developing agents that perform software engineering tasks is going beyond having the system simply write code.

Like humans, an agent interacting with a large language model has memory constraints.

I have been working extensively with multiple AI agents coding in parallel.

I joined Roblox few months ago.

I’m running several projects on my mini PC: 1.

Few weekends ago, I wanted to see what would be the best model of coding that I could run locally on my Intel 9 with 32 gig of ram and my Nvidia 5080 with 8gig of vram.

I recently built a that allows me to queue YouTube videos from my phone and stream only the audio back to me.

I go to the office every day of the week.

Several years ago, I built an audiobook machine using a Raspberry Pi and RFID cards (see the about the project).

I recently .

I realized that I skipped the recapitulation of 2024 and 2023.

I have been using Microsoft OneNote since I joined Microsoft as a software engineer in 2014.

I have recently read more about Monte Carlo simulation and the .

I will skim some of the context, but in recent years, I have been in many different companies and teams with different operational models, including remote, hybrid, and in-office.

TypeScript is a great language for writing code that is type-safe and easy to read.

known as SSE uses by default HTTP GET with the EventSource JavaScript object.