Writing
You can't prompt your way past what you don't understand
I got stuck on a single sentence on the Rust homepage and realised I couldn't actually explain half the words in it. So I'm learning Rust in the open, because you can't prompt your way past a concept you don't understand.
- Agents don't need better prompts. They need better permissions
- How preference tuning ruined a perfectly good punctuation mark
- Relying on AI without losing yourself
Side projects
tab-it split trip expenses
The apps I'd used kept charging for the basics, so I built my own. Free, open source, and a thing I keep poking at on the side.
Away from the keyboard
Most of what's here is engineering. A lot of it's AI and ML, plenty of it isn't, and the odd tangent sneaks in when something grabs me. Some holds up, some I'd already do differently. If it saves you a wrong turn, good.
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