My eighth-grade math teacher had a rule: the answer alone wasn’t enough. Show the work. Every step was laid out, so she could see where the reasoning went right or […]
The Best Prompt I Ever Wrote, I Didn’t Write
There’s an entire genre of content right now about how to write better prompts. Courses. YouTube rabbit holes. LinkedIn thought leaders with their numbered frameworks and their “steal this prompt” […]
AI Assumed We’d Figured Out Testing. We Hadn’t.
My second summer job was at a software company that made backup software. They had a lab. Rows of machines running different operating systems, different hardware configurations. And they had […]
Temperature: The AI Creativity Dial I Had Completely Backwards
I want to tell you about the moment in week one of Anthropic’s API course that made me stop, reread the slide, and laugh out loud at myself. It was […]
I’m Going All In on the Anthropic Academy. Here’s Why.
A few weeks ago, I didn’t know what Anthropic was. I’ve written about that already — the moment someone told me to “learn Anthropic,” and I stared at my screen […]
You Said I Needed 5 Years. So I Went Straight to the Source.
Last I wrote about the math behind those “5 years of LLM experience required” job postings. If you missed it — the short version: a 2024 job posting requiring 5 […]
Your AI Has Amnesia (And Here’s Why)
It’s one of the most frustrating things about working with AI tools — and nobody warns you about it upfront. You start a conversation with a clear set of requirements. […]
The Hiring Market Broke Generalists
Monday night I was at a StartupSac meetup — good group, mostly engineers these days, about three-quarters of the room are developers with the rest entrepreneurs. Exactly the kind of […]
5 Years of LLM Experience Required 🙄
Last weekend I hit job application #2,000. Two thousand. Over roughly two and a half years of job hunting. And before you do the math — yes, I’ve read a […]
AI Triage: What Goes Where
I didn’t set out to build a four-tool AI workflow. It kind of… assembled itself through trial and error. Mostly error. After a few weeks of testing all four platforms […]