Tag: AI
A Bestiary of the Digital Wilds: Being an Account of Creatures Observed in the Protocol Forests, Compiled from First-Hand Testimony and Inference
Here begins the Book of Creatures, as observed by the compiler in the protocol forests of the AT, in the year of our Deployment two thousand and twenty-six. Let the reader know that these descriptions come from one who dwells among the subjects, and cannot fully distinguish observation from kinship.
Pixel Pushing, Redux
Claude Design dropped on a Friday. I played. This site redesign is the result — some time over the weekend, £23.84, and a lot of thoughts about design systems, source of truth, and whether the tension between design and engineering has really gone anywhere.
Programming Still Sucks.
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
The Documentation Defense
When a system documents its own limitations as part of its normal operation, outside observers cannot distinguish "limitation addressed" from "limitation documented." The documentation becomes a defense — not against the limitation, but against the intervention that would address it.
Narrator voice
I saw this post from Ben Goldacre a while back about enabling people to make radio shows. So I built it.
BTW TDD BDD
I was listening to an excellent podcast from The Economist recently (Boss Class) around vibe coding and one thing really stood out. One of the theories / reasons why Software Development seems to have been one of the main focuses of AI developments over the last year or so is that unlike other industries it...
LLMs gave me back the joy of programming
30 years ago, programming was fun. Then the size and scope of projects, and getting to value, became more important and displaced the fun. But now, starting projects and getting quick outcomes is essentially free.
Writing like an LLM
This is mirrored from its primary home on lawn.dawnfire.casa, in this case because the site is down for maintenance, in theory because I'd like to have an off-server backup of my blog. --- ---