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Some thoughts don't need essays. They just need somewhere to land. Bytes are the small ones: thoughts that appear mid-commute, mid-debug, mid-coffee. I post them from Telegram or the terminal, whichever is open, and whichever I'm probably procrastinating in when the brain buffer overflows. Stay connected on the telegram channel for latest bytes.

Keep refining the question until the articulation becomes precise. Instead of one shotting in a single prompt, rigor of recursion can be helpful. In the age of cheap code, problem articulation becomes the real engineering skill.mar 11

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The real devils are blind spots in context and subtle misinterpretations of intent. Context bloat and hallucinations are easier to detect and manage with discipline: precise prompts, iterations, and careful scoping.mar 11

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| Spec = f(What, Why, Constraints) | Implementation = Plan(Spec) | Spec = (Objective x Features x Constraints) => Plan |mar 11

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Mom, Happy Birthday. Life may have given her countless reasons to be pessimistic but remained weirdly optimistic about me. No expectations, no pressure. Just trust. A dangerously empowering parenting strategy letting me keep compiling the things I actually love.mar 10

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When reasoning becomes easy to delegate, humans may no longer remain the primary locus of implementation reasoning. Perhaps the only protection is maintaing small moments of curiosity.mar 10

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If agents appear more confident and knowledgeable than me, what does my judgement, taste or domain knowledge even mean? May be the first step isn't answering this yet.mar 10

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Agents optimize whatever objective you imply. With a vague spec, the loss function becomes: agree with the human + do something plausible. Congrats, you’ve reached a sycophantic local minimum.mar 9

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Agents are not confused by vague specs. They just become very productive in the wrong direction. TIL to point carefully.mar 9

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Agents promise to save us from the pain of debugging, but that pain was often where real understanding came from. If the struggle disappears, we'll have to deliberately create new ways to learn how our systems actually work.mar 9

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Agentic development makes personal software incredibly rewarding. Building for yourself guarantees a user. Building for the internet guarantees - may be silence.mar 9

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