Engineering Blog

Will it Blend was a series of videos promoting a blender brand, in which various unlikely objects were put in a blender to see if they would blend.

I made a prototype and let it sit for over two months. why? attention is all i need - focus can be frustrating, because i can't do the other things, but it is also what lets me enjoy holidays and get good results out of my work.

Synthetic Test Driven Development is when you have a coding agent generate the tests and the code, and maybe also do the refactor step with an agent.

Next annoying variation in my blog writing workflow is adding images to a post. I wanted to add drag and drop. I let a coding agent generate something that almost worked, and then did the finishing touches by hand, simplifying the UX and code as I went.

Checking out a repository on a fresh machine often involves some fiddling around. An init scripts costs only one prompt and gets you going now, and months later.

In which the writer reflects on believing AI is conscious

The last ten days have seen a phase shift in quality and speed of open weight models and inference. I am still adjusting.