· Brittany Ellich · illustration · 1 min read
A lot of people use AI as a means of skipping over a bunch of important knowledge. But that makes it really hard to truly understand a subject.
Just because you have a graphing calculator doesn’t mean you know calculus.
AI builds everything as this huge monster of too much, and now I feel like I’m iterating by trimming things back and perfecting it over time. It’s a bit like working from clay, and allowing the software underneath to expose itself in the…
For the last week or so I've had an agent working my task board. It picks up a task, writes the code in an isolated worktree, opens a PR, gets CI green, responds to review feedback, and parks the result somewhere I can test it. Then it…
Social media was supposed to connect us, but most of it has turned into ads, division, and loneliness. I'm betting on ATProto as a way to fix that, and not just for developers. Whether you're a scientist, journalist, or just someone who…
It seems like everyone is trying to make predictions right now. The discomfort of not knowing what the future holds is unbearable, and making a prediction (even a terrifying one) feels better than sitting in the ambiguity. When you can…