Roderick.Dev

Obsessing over AI agent harnesses - or, the uphill battle agents face

A qualitative case study of how sociotechnical system design results in vulnerable populations

Reasoning on how AI will impact labor markets

Why Applications of AI are a fruitful field

Thought on the market upheavals from AI.

When Vulnerability Drives Action: Designing Forward-Looking Frameworks for Disaster Preparedness.

Some principles for making good hackathons.

Integrating Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Outcomes: A Case Study of Model-Agnostic Interpretable Machine Learning.

AI systems cost to build have dropped substantially

Convergence can be scary, and yet the parts are still useful.

Building in the age of AI.

Notes on testing Vibe Coding after several months.

Short notes on useful things LLMs can do in practice -- a running list.

Words to live by and goals to work toward, on the occasion of turning 40.

A straw poll on naming the integration of generative models into products and services.

The Megaface incident as a case study in AI's data economics problem.

Sources for discovering datasets that don't show up in standard searches.

Notes on moving from Twitter to Mastodon following the Musk acquisition.

Why UMAP deserves a place in your segmentation toolkit, and where TDA goes next.

An introduction to Tom Roderick -- economist, data scientist, and the mind behind Roderick.Dev.