OK, Gell-Mann Amnesia may not be the best analogy, but it certainly seems the closest I can find. LLMs seem incredibly helpful when you’re prompting about things you don’t understand well, but the more you go into detail about something you do understand, the more…whelming (something I thought was only […]
Year: 2026
Building a local deployable environment with K3S
I know, Kubernetes has a much bigger learning curve than just running Docker, and there are multiple services that run these for you that are, by all accounts, quite good (e.g Dokploy and Coolify). They’re even self-hostable. But, I wanted to learn how to run and manage infrastructure directly, so […]
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the (agents)”
I’m hardly the first person to posit that the “AI” industry is in a bubble and due for a crash. I doubt I’m the only person who hopes it takes out OpenAI and Anthropic in the process. But if this bubble bursting takes out anything in its blast radius, then […]
I’m pretty sure that last mile is supposed to be walked
As little as I like to admit it, LLMs are taking over software development (event though it doesn’t seem to be going well). Now there’s a push to automate every single step of the way, because us meatbags are just too slow at…everything. These days, we have people running agents […]
Building a local RAG in Go
I had to go through an “AI” course recently for work, which included a couple of homework assignments. The intent was that these would be company-specific, but because 1 of these had to be posted on GitHub, I have a version without internal data. That was the RAG assignment (probably […]
The curious case of the unrun defer
Over the course of learning Go, I’ve come to like some aspects of the language. 1 of those is the defer statement. For those that aren’t familiar with the language, defer queues up a function call for just before your current function exits. I’ve found it similar in purpose to […]
The “I had to lay everyone off because AI changes things” slop notes
Recently, ClickUp joined the (very large) club of companies laying off tons of people and trying to say that it’s “bEcAuSe Of Ai.” I had this sitting open for a while because there’s a lot of stuff I wanted to comment, and while I was well underway of a Tweet […]
I need to start shipping crap
That title is a bit dramatic. I’ve written infrastructure as code, pushed stuff to AWS, and supported it for over 10 years. I’ve gotten a bug report in the morning and messaged the support engineer (via Hipchat, because that’s how old I am) that afternoon to let him know the […]
“(Pain) is a good thing”
The movie Kingdom of Heaven has 1 of the best knighting scenes in cinema – punctuating the knight’s oath with a hard slap, because “…that’s so you’ll remember it.” While software development doesn’t come with quite the same…”haptic feedback,” the fact is a lot of us have leveled up after […]
Simple and easy HTML validation in Go
I didn’t spend as much time in 2025 working on my gift registry, so all I really have is a login flow and profile management. I am building out a test suite that seems to do a pretty good job of validating the code works (I’ve only had a couple […]