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Last time I hand-crafted an induction head, and I ended on a question I could not answer from inside the toy: if I go looking in a real trained model, will I find the circuit I just built?

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from staring at an abstraction until it loses all meaning.

I am working in the small hours of the morning on a day when I have not slept much.

There’s a thing I do as a manager that I’m not proud of, and I’d like to write about it before I rationalise my way out of it.

The real problem was never docs.

Every weekday morning, millions of software engineers stand in a circle — or join a video call, or answer a Slack bot — and recite a script: What did I do yesterday?

I picked up The Courage to Be Disliked during a turbulent stretch – agentic AI disrupting the industry, layoffs rolling through, genuine uncertainty about the future of software engineering.

I am old enough to have used CORBA, and COM+.

Microservices Patterns Sunday, May 17, 2020 10:24 PM This is my personal notes for “Microservices Patterns” book by Chris Richardson https://microservices.io/book Chapter 1 The first section of this chapter covers the monolithic hell and makes the case of…