talkingquickly

The “Software is eating labor” thesis is driving a lot of discussion and investment at the moment.

There’s lots of talk about a bubble vs not but unless you happen to be fundraising right now, it’s probably one of the less important questions in startups and AI.

The more I work with large language models, the more blown away I am by how fundamentally I think they’re going to change everything about how we build software.

My secondary coding environment is a Proxmox server I use to spin up LXC dev containers which are just Debian containers with tmux and Neovim and all my dev dependencies on them.

A job that used to exist is creating punch cards for computers to read.

Over the last few years a reliable way to be wrong has been to predict “chat won’t work as an interface for that” and then wait a few weeks.

Over the last 12 months I’ve fallen back in love with software engineering.

tldr; AI Coding (“vibe coding”) is real and it has fundamentally changed what it means to be a software engineer forever.

This is a page I update periodically with key takeaways from non-fiction books I’ve read.

Best in breed procurement, where many systems - the best in class for each system - are procured independently then integrated with one another has had a tricky decade.