Writing is like taking an idea and turning it into a rigid object.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the contribution to US GDP in Q1 2024 of professional services industries was more than double that of information industries (which includes softare publishing).

Using org-mode and org-roam can make a rudimentary CRM system for logging interactions with people, companies, or any other contact.

Software abstractions save us time doing work by not having to write programs from lower level building blocks.

A problem that crops up often in web design is centering.

Working asynchronously is an important reason why remote teams work. However, it can devolve into anti-patterns.

Using a UI is a form of deductive reasoning that takes effort.

Low bitrate audio codecs are primarily used for downscaling audio for slower internet connection speeds and supporting older devices.

I recently shared some observations about trying to use generative AI tools at work and shared the experience on LinkedIn.

I hear it often enough that it seems like a commonly held belief that anxiety somehow improves performance at work and gives one an edge.

Here are the most useful metrics I’ve found for running a startup.

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As it stands today, LLM applications have noticeable latency but much of the latency is output-size bound rather than input-size bound.

Most of my tasks and projects are organized using org-mode. I was looking for a way to query them from an LLM and, rather than recreate an index and a database, I can use what I normally use, org-ql using emacs in batch mode.

A recent study from Stanford found that LLM’s (GPT-4) and RAG-based AI tools (Lexis+ AI, Westlaw AI-Assisted Research, Ask Practical Law AI) hallucinate answers 16% to 40% of the time in benchmarking queries.

The way to make everything in your codebase twice as complicated is to make data nullable.

While I don’t write code every day, I find it incredibly convenient.

Sometimes using Emacs you want to know what variables are being set in the current buffer.

I recently needed to change the behavior of a library (org-download) based on the tags of the current buffer.

Many vector databases can find the top k most similar results to a query but are unable to sort by other document metadata.

Alfred does not have a mobile application that can make snippets available from your desktop to your phone.

One of the difficult parts of applying AI to existing processes and products is that people aren’t calibrated on what generative AI can and can’t do.

Writing a specification with sufficient detail to know exactly what software one should build is as much work as writing the code itself.

When asked to draw a random number between 1 and 10 and any color, most people choose the number seven and the color blue.