Greg Herlein

The AI train has left the station.

Software development is stratifying into three distinct tiers.

If software changes something in the real world, it’s a robot.

Estimated reading time: 25 minutes Management README I was inspired by an article on Management README’s and thought it was high time I do something similar.

After two years of false starts with the Bristlemouth platform and permit headaches, I’m revisiting my whale song project with a completely different approach: semi-autonomous floating drones.

Looking back at 2025, one theme dominates: AI agentic programming went from novelty to necessity.

Popularity, Jobs, LLM Proficiency, Concurrency Complexity, and Deployment Complexity Five factors now drive language choice: developer adoption, job market demand, LLM code generation quality, concurrency handling, and deployment complexity.

A friend recently asked me about restaurants in San Francisco and was shocked I’d never written about Foreign Cinema.

“We are nearly at coder-equivalency for economically useful coding.

I don’t like the term “vibe coding.”

I let Claude Code do whatever it wants without asking permission.

Python dominates robotics today.

In my previous post about Claude Code, I talked about using VS Code devcontainers to safely run Claude in “dangerous mode.”

So I’ve been working on this project called client-w-mcp – it’s a leanring project to truly understand how an AI agent works with MCP servers.

There’s a lot of folks who are in outright denial about AI agentic programming.

There’s no way to really understand something unless you dive into first principles.

I’ve been exploring the intersection of AI and content creation lately, and I wanted to share my experience using Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 AI assistant within the Zed editor to streamline my blogging workflow.

Reading time: 10 minutes It’s brutally hard to find a job as a new college grad today.

The evolution of AI-assisted programming has reached a pivotal moment, transforming from simple code completion to truly collaborative AI agents.

UPDATED: On Ubuntu 24.10 just installing using apt “just works.”

How I mapped some basic keys to be the same on MacOS and Ubuntu and saved my sanity.

I was trained as a US Navy ET.

The US Navy gave me a solid foundation in leadership and operational excellence.

A short update on my whale song project: I fell down a few technical rabbit hole!

Leaving this here mostly for me, but short instructions on how to change Chrome’s “typeahead” predictors if it remembers the “wrong” one.

I’ve been waiting several years for Harry Max to finish his book “Managing Priorities.

I had a lot of fun being interviewed by Aimee Vincent-Bunn who hosts the fabulous Women in STEM podcast.

I decided to learn how to write gRPC code in golang - and used ChatGPT as an accelerator!

I bought the eBook AI at the Edge.

I’ve been a “leader-of-leaders” for a long time.

Memorial Day is special to me as a former submariner.

A short update on my whale song project: it’s shifting technology.

A friend was telling me about “Dream Teams” at Netflix and I realized that is exactly what I have been trying to build/encourage around me.

A short update on my whale song project: it’s delayed.

I’ve been thinking a lot about tech hiring and why it’s a crap-show for so many.

I had a lot of fun being interviewed by James Holder for the Software Synergy Podcast.

Work on the SOFAR Spotter with Development Kit is slower than I hoped.

I finally have a book that describes my management philosophy.

I finally have a book that describes my management philosophy.

I have possession and unboxed the SOFAR Spotter with Development Kit!

Let’s talk about AI pair programming - not the hypothetical future version, but what we have right now in 2024.

The SOFAR Spotter with Development Kit may not be able to get to me.

Recent press about an actual conversation with a whale was preceeded by ground-breaking work by Dr.

I’ve been accepted into the Bristlemouth Pioneer Program.

I’ve been accepted into the Bristlemouth Pioneer Program.

I undid it.

I left Facebook to get away from all the hate.

My son graduated from CU Boulder with a BS in Aerospace Engineering.

I did it.

Apple moved things around in the Network tab in System Settings.