German Velasco

Image by Wander Fleur I’ve always heard it said, “Niche down!”

One of the patterns I’ve found particularly helpful with LLMs is the diverge-then-converge pattern.

Many people’s new way of working with LLMs is to start with an idea, have the LLM create a spec (review and approve that), then have the LLM generate a very detailed plan.

I recently published ExCrap, an Elixir library for calculating Change Risk Anti-Patterns scores – or as they’re commonly called CRAP scores.

It’s always surprising when people don’t want to delete dead code because they think they might need it in the future or because they worked so hard on it.

My guess is that most software development teams in the world are at a point where we are drawing the two circles (Don’t quote me on that.

I know LLMs are a contentious topic.

Back in April, I decided to write daily for my newsletter.

Thinking about the extremes is a powerful tool to help refine our intuition, unearth second-order effects, discover novel ways of doing things, and generally find alternate solutions to problems when we’re stuck.

I had that written on my office whiteboard for a while last year.