the Pirate Baby

It is hard to believe that we are nearly half a decade into the genAI gold rush.

Chris asked if I could jump on a quick call a few weeks back.

If your algo has even a dash of AI in it, always-on agents have probably flooded your feed harder than cauliflower-based hors d’oeuvres at a Lululemon company offsite.

This month marks one year of ubiquitous agentic coding in the software world.

There is an old Doug Stanhope bit where a news channel polled their viewers “Will there be a terrorist attack at this year’s Olympics?"

Reflective generative AI software components as a development paradigm Nowhere has the proliferation of generative AI tooling been more aggressive than in the world of software development.

A Duck, Typing In 1967 computer scientist Melvin Conway made an observation that came to be known as Conway’s Law.

I was sketching out architectural recommendations for a client project that, after a successful POC, was ready for the prime-time of production software.

For a little while now our LinkedIn feeds have been littered with AI Takeaways; a highlighted, prompt-toned text blurb wedged under selected posts and adorned with a little star (to let you know this is an important new feature).

grounding your ML development lifecycle in commercial reality If you subscribe to the Gartner predictive model for AI impact and adoption (a.k.a the “AI Hype Cycle”) we are still far from peak (inflated) AI expectations.

preamble The drive home from the movie theater was not going well.

History The most money I have ever made was my years spent selling motorcycles.

Let me preface this by saying that I very much appreciate the entire Lang* ecosystem.

The world never ceases to be filled with new things, and that is exciting.

There is a well-warn platitude that “debt is stealing from your future self.”

It starts out innocent enough, on a frozen New Year’s Eve afternoon.

SQLAlchemy has nifty declarative mapping type support with the Mapped typing descriptor.

Recently I went about standing up a fresh Continuous Delivery pipeline for a new project.

It is difficult to argue substantially that there is not enough time if there is a TV on your wall or TikTok on your phone.

I have a working theory that most of the Data Scientists working today developed their naming conventions by watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in the 90s.