My blog. Personal thoughts, anecdotes, and musings.
I keep seeing how “LLMs are great teaching tools! I asked it to explain X to me and it did!” Don’t be fooled! Ask it to explain a technical topic you deeply understand and you’ll start to see where it makes things up. It is a predictive text engine. Sure, you can do all sorts of prompt hacking to get better results. But at the end of the day, if you don’t know the topic really well you will never know if it made up the facts it gave you.
Software development doesn’t have to be your career. Use it to solve pain points in your life, like the one I had today.
I started out the year thinking it would be “business as usual.” Boy was I wrong.
I’ve been at Temporal for a full year. So, how’d it go?
You may have heard of learning styles. But it turns out there’s no evidence to support them.
A look back on my time at DigitalOcean as I close the books on nearly six years at this great company.
This February, I did the RPM Challenge, a global event where musicians have the month of Febrary to record and release music. Like last year, I was able to choose to do a single song, an EP of 5 songs, or a full-length album. My goal was to do the 5-song EP, but February turned out to be a lot busier than I’d expected.
I performed my own music on DigitalOcean’s live stream as part of the Deploy conference.
A look at the changes that happen when my books are translated into other languages.
So you want to get good at something in a creative field like music, writing, or even coding? Folks might tell you that you need thousands of hours of study. But that’s not necessarily true. The key to getting good at something is to do it over and over while incorporating feedback along the way. Think of the one thing you’re amazing at. How long did it take you to get to your level of skill?