Archive - system bashing

Why are Neural Networks architected that way in the first place?

Getting a deterministic programming brain of a software engineer to intuit the model of neural networks.

Jun 2 •

May 2025

The Five Waves of Tech: Riding the Tides of Technological Evolution

And the answer to what kind of tech companies should you join in 2025 if you want to 10x your career.

May 22 •

We live in a 'dunkocracy'

How Social Media Point-Scoring Is Reshaping Global Politics

May 6 •

'Clean Architecture' is the most inane thing in the software engineering world

Everyone who I have seen to be a religious follower of Uncle Bob's methods, has 99% times turned out to be an extremely incompetent engineer.

May 3 •

March 2025

Are you impressed with LLM generated code yet?

It might be about how good a programmer you are

Mar 12 •

February 2025

Information Overload

Written by AI, read by AI. Just forwarded by humans.

Feb 23 •

January 2025

The Local Optimisation Problem in Large Organisations

The inherent complexity in large organisations resigns the individuals in it to optimise for local metrics in absence of visibility and/or influence…

Jan 8 •

November 2024

The Media Format Wars

Centralising by format vs centralising by domain/audience

Nov 28, 2024 •

October 2024

There's no going back from the "Copilot Life"

The most killer GenAI app for me so far has been using it as Copilot inside my IDE and Obsidian for writing and coding.

Oct 29, 2024 •

September 2024

Running Engineering Teams productively - having both slack and being understaffed

The key to running engineering teams at the optimum efficience is by both having some slack, as well as always feeling like you have less people for the…

Sep 1, 2024 •

May 2024

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