AI agents in programming are fast but inefficient, requiring careful human oversight and a shift towards bottom-up coding methods for better results.
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0Monty Hall Illustrated
2025-06-07 •
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The text discusses the concept of 'vibe coding', which involves using an AI agent to code a full project without manual coding. It compares this to metaprogramming, highlighting the use of metaprogramming when lacking an abstracti...
0Everybody can learn to walk
2025-05-15 • learning motivation self improvement
The text discusses the common tendency to give up when learning something new after facing initial failures, using the analogy of a child learning to walk. It emphasizes that everyone can learn and that differences in learning cur...
The text provides excerpts from 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William L. Shirer, focusing on the rise of the Nazi party, the Weimar Republic, Hitler's trial for treason, the roots of the Third Reich, the Nazi propagand...
The text discusses the rise and fall of Elon Musk as an idol, highlighting the unrealistic expectations and idolization of public figures. It points out the consequences of attributing unrealistic traits to individuals and the imp...
0AGI is the new AI
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses the practical definition of AI and AGI, highlighting that AI is now integrated into computer systems and no longer something we thought we couldn't do with a computer. It also mentions the benchmark for AGI and ...
0Stuff I did in 2024
2025-02-07 •
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0The case for 100% code coverage
2025-02-07 •
The author argues in favor of aiming for 100% code coverage, explaining that it is valuable because it can help identify code that never runs and that there are diminishing returns in the amount of confidence gained about code cor...
0Turn the Ship Around! (L. David Marquet, 2013)
2025-02-07 •
The book 'Turn the Ship Around!' by L. David Marquet discusses the transition from a leader-follower model to a leader-leader model in the US submarines. Marquet emphasizes the importance of empowering the crew to make decisions a...
0Solving Redactle with Decision Trees
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses the game Redactle, which involves guessing the title of a Wikipedia article based on redacted words. The author proposes a method to optimally divide the search space of subjects and uses decision tree learning ...
0View yourself as a sitcom character
2025-02-07 •
The author shares their experience of using a strategy to mitigate stress by viewing themselves as a character in a sitcom when they needed to demo a project to a big customer. They explain how this perspective helped them appreci...
0The uniqueness of sentences
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses the uniqueness of sentences and the combinatorial nature of text, highlighting the vast number of possible sequences of words and the challenge of predicting the next word in a sentence. It also explores the tra...
0I mishandle my smartphone in my nightmares
2025-02-07 •
The author refutes the idea that smartphones are absent from dreams, sharing their recurring nightmare of struggling to use a smartphone in high-pressure situations.
0Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001)
2025-02-07 •
The book Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains how we attribute meaningful narratives to series of events which were, in fact, random. The author illustrates the idea with the trading world, recounting numerous ex...
0A chess paradox, and a social psychology bias
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses a chess paradox where players who spend more time thinking about their next moves are more likely to make a blunder. The explanation is that complex positions lead to both more thinking and more blunders. This i...
0Croppenheimer
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses the release of the movie Oppenheimer and the issue of IMAX scenes being cropped in most cinemas, leading to the viral buzzword 'Croppenheimer'. The author explains the concept of IMAX and its aspect ratio, and p...
0"It's okay, I'm learning."
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses the burden of mistakes and the toxic over-thinking that can result from them. The author shares the phrase 'It's okay, I'm learning' as a way to relieve the weight of mistakes and emphasizes the importance of ex...
0ChatGPT Scratchpad
2025-02-07 •
The author discusses the use of a scratchpad for ChatGPT to work out solutions before writing them. They experimented with masquerading the scratchpad as an introduction to the reply and found that it was successful. The author al...
0The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007)
2025-02-07 •
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses the problem of induction and the occurrence of Black Swans, unpredictable events that have a significant impact. It explores the distinction between Mediocristan and Extremistan, c...
The text discusses the limitations of ChatGPT's coherence and its inability to give an answer before explaining its reasoning. It also explores the use of step-by-step instructions to demonstrate this phenomenon and the challenges...
0ChatGPT Epic Fail: The rules of Chess
2025-02-07 •
The text is a conversation between the author and ChatGPT about the rules of chess, specifically about the ability to see the entire board in online and over-the-board chess. The author argues that being able to see the entire boa...
0The 2 definitions of being good at something
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses two different ways to measure proficiency in an activity, and how they yield different results. It explains the difference between classifying proficiency by levels and ranking practitioners, and how these metho...
The text is a series of hypothetical conversations between the author and ChatGPT discussing the potential side effects and societal impacts of various hypothetical inventions and medical breakthroughs.