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 […]
Category: Shenanigans
Anything not software-related
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 “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 […]
Product management really does matter
Not too long ago, Joel Spolsky’s blog post about architecture astronauts hit my various consumption feeds, and it serves as a good reminder that, as fun as it is to make fun of product managers (and it is a lot of fun), they’re also probably the most important people in […]
The checkboxes are everywhere, and once you notice them you’ll never unsee them
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to sit through some sort of motivational, life lesson-style speech. I have not however, lost count of the number of lines from those speeches that actually stuck with me, because it’s literally “2.” Most people trying to write 1 of […]
A case study in peak overemployment
If you see tech updates on Twitter (never X), you may have heard of the strange tale of 1 Soham Parekh. Apparently the young man has taken the trend of overemployment to a level that can be best described as caricature. For a recap on what’s happened and the initial […]
I don’t think the problem is that the job market is broken
If you hear anyone say anything about the jobs market these days, odds are the word “broken” comes to mind. Hundreds of resumes sent out, and in the best case scenario people have been getting tens of calls in response. Not job offers, not in-person interviews, just the company in […]
X marks either the bike shed, or the event-sourced Wikipedia
Chelsea Troy wrote a fantastic article last September titled “What do we do with the Twitter-shaped hole in the internet?” While I don’t subscribe to the premise that Twitter is “crashing,” there were about 2 articles worth of good reading in 1 URL, so it bears a lot of consideration […]
Knowing simple problem-solving techniques is important
The key mantra my computer science professors worked hard to drill into us at college was always “Computer science is about solving problems, computers are simply a tool we use to do it.” As fun as it is to meme about the technical interview vs. the actual job, the reality […]
Stop calling them “exits” – some companies “left” long ago.
The term “exit” always irritated me when people write about startups. Especially because it only happens when a company is either bought or IPOs. I’m not saying that startups don’t use acquisition (or IPOs if you’re Twitter – never X) as an exit strategy to avoid actually making money, but […]