Link of the Day: Wisereads Vol. 108 — Alex McCann on the death of the corporate job, Wuthering Heights, and more The title of this link is a little misleading. The real lede here is buried in the “Twitter Thread of the Week: WHY RETENTION IS SO HARD FOR NEW TECH PRODUCTS" section by Andrew Chen. I am always looking for shortcuts, key p...

Link of the Day: Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude I think I am finally ready to dip my toes into “vibe coding.” In reading this article, I saw the first “real” production grade setup for an LLM. This author “gets it.” Most vibe coding articles are interesting, but not at all applicable for anyone building an application ...

While this article is nominally about a venture capitalist (and an interesting one at that), what I find most fascinating here are the ideas about AI. First, I think AI will massively scale our ability to learn more than it will do things for us. The best performers in the markets will use AI to surface data from previously untapped so...

Comparing Energy Consumption of React Framework Versions “Changes in React can cause huge changes downstream, with millions of websites being affected. One of these changes is power consumption. More efficient code in the React framework can result in drastic cuts in carbon emissions. Research, however, shows that a significant amount ...

Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software Ironically, the model of software development laid out here may end up helping LLMs build software better: 1. Build a mental model of the requirements 2. Write code that (hopefully?!) does that 3. Build a mental model of what the code actually does 4. Identify the differences, and update the code (o...

Building AI Products In The Probabilistic Era I am spending a lot of time recently thinking about how AI systems fail and what use cases are best suited for these randomized prediction machines. In my own personal projects, I find myself reaching for AI when I want to extend, not replace, my capabilities. The prime example is Deeper Re...

There are no new ideas in AI — only new datasets Yesterday I wrote about the applications of AI in robotics. Frankly, it was more theory than substance. Today I'm bringing a little bit more substance. First, this article tracks the progression of AI development better than I did, laying it out like so: “1. Deep neural networks: Deep ne...

D.I.Y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm | The New Yorker “Koike completed his machine last year, and it works—to some degree. It sorts cucumbers with an accuracy of seventy per cent, which is low enough that they must subsequently be checked by hand. What’s more, the vegetables still need to be placed on the phot...

The Nonwriter's Guide to Writing A Lot I am writing this as I am listening to Denver by Jack Harlow. I am trying to start writing again, which is ironic given I used to write about my prolific writing habits. It's funny that in this article, the author points out that all of us are now prolific writers if you count our various digital ...

The advent of COVID and remote work forced me to reconsider where I want to live in the future and how I might make that determination. When I was in high school, I didn't give much thought to where I'd live after college. I didn't spare a second thought for what might happen after that. Yet as college continued, I saw my hometown chan...

Jason Fried is doing something like this and since I've started writing 750 words daily thanks to 750words.com (I'm now using an Obsidian hack for this, but it all started with them), I have wanted a place to put my words. Why write about an idea, article, and book? Because that is mostly what I write about everyday. As part of a previ...

As the state of Michigan begins opening back up, I'm faced with social choices again. There are a lot of things I'm excited about with the world opening up again (food being the most obvious one), but the thing I'm least excited about is making social choices. As an introvert and people pleaser, I'm constantly at war between pleasing p...

It's come to my attention, based on one of my past articles, that I am not super satisfied with my outputs. At the moment, I'm writing 2 articles a week, one with a friend and one solo on my personal blog. For some reason, I want to write more. In my past article, I wrote a Goldilocks of my output: Too Little: No writing "Just Right": ...

This post is not about what you'd think it is. While it's true that in my area of the world things are slowly starting to open up, I'm not writing about that. Instead, I'm writing about my friend Neil and I's return to the community of ideas. Almost a year ago now and two years after our failed startup, we started having weekly bonfire...

Monday Musings #1 Playing Goldilocks: A New Way to Stave Off Information Overload When information is unlimited, processing is everything I’m on my fourth attempt to read the Innovators by Walter Isaacson. By now, I have the first few chapters, all about the early computing theory of Ada Lovelace and the 1800s, all but committed to mem...

Topic of the Day: Promoting Writing I keep running into a dilemma when it comes to when to post and promote writing and personal projects. The optimal time for every platform other than Twitter, which is just weird, is smack in the middle of the work day. I will sheepishly admit that I'm not above posting during the work day, but now t...