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Rough Edges, People, and Control
One of the reasons I wanted to start this newsletter was to get back into the habit and discipline of writing regularly. I don't want to say it isn't happening... but it's something I need to work on. That's what Summer is
Striking Out with LLMs: Or how I tried to use AI and why it failed.
This is a post I've been kicking around for a while and why I decided to start up a newsletter. I think it's good to read about how people try to actually do things, and in that spirit, here's my experience in trying to
Remembering that Research Ain't Easy
There's a project at work where we needed to get some data out of our ILS - essentially a very large, complex database - and doing so had a bunch of hiccups. Some were user error from not understanding or remembering the terms for the query tool, some were because
Thoughts on Friction
In some ways this is a fresh start. Moving on from 20 years of blogs and all the subsequent baggage and messiness that comes with publicly writing every stupid thought out for the whole internet to consume. And yet... I'm still me and this isn't going