Every so often I check LinkedIn, I have colleagues, friends, and a few enemies on there I catch up with periodically. And EVERY time my brain seems to end up scrolling the LinkedIn feed and reading things, today I saw this post: (I am SO sorry if you’re reading this) One of my employees asked for every Friday off this summer. Not PTO. Not sick days. Just… Fridays. For 3 months. ...
For full immersion, play the below track and replace “space” with “bus” https://open.spotify.com/album/7GGYdBte34n3jsPVcuRkXG?si=P0J55mOuTEyfCVh4o3WGlA Today I took the Bus Train. A Bus with attached rail wheels so it can travel along a track. The Bus Train was adopted around 2ish years ago after the old rail cars were de-commissioned due to being hard to repair. Before that (25 years-ish prior) there was a daily train that came from Vancouver. During COVID, no trains ran. ...
I figured I’d take some time to jot what I think about AI. I’ve never formulated a cohesive opinion on it and this should help me whenever I have to discuss it or evaluate its part in a project. Let’s break this whole thing down. I will likely add more in time, but this is a good start for now. My AI journey I started using CoPilot and ChatGPT very early when I first heard about them (2022-3ish) and realised they could be a very powerful programming tool. I initially found them to be like an extremely powerful autocomplete and very helpful for generating smaller chunks of code. Things I still consider them to be good at. I experimented with using ChatGPT to create a Dungeons and Dragons DM after my groups moved away. It couldn’t even come close. I used ChatGPT in a hackathon to communicate Grasshopper scripts to it ^[1], it did very well. This project has been continuously cited by various academic papers which has been quite exciting. Eventually I realised I might be leaning on AI more than I’d like and decided to stop using it as an experiment. I’ve still never shipped code AI generated that I haven’t read, and I’m glad in retrospect I at least had that pride in my work. I’ve largely stopped using AI for programming (occasionally using it for debugging). I’m at an impasse where I cannot decide on the correct point in a programmers career to hand them AI. As an Architect my first year I was told to never use CAD and only learn using pens and pencils to learn the importance and intent of every line. I think AI should be treated the same way, but I don’t know how many years or which concepts I should have mastered first. ...
In British Columbia you can just buy a school bus and drive it, on a regular driving license provided you take the seats out and the signs down. It doesn’t matter that it weighs 8 tonnes, it doesn’t matter than it is basically a steel tank, it doesn’t matter that your last car was a smart car, you’re free to drive the length and breadth of one of the largest counties on earth. ...
Article Link : https://chaoticgood.management/how-to-be-a-leader-when-the-vibes-are-off/ Overall I agree with the majority of the start of this article and I think it’s likely the author and I have worked at very different tech companies, but at a certain point I just saw our opinions diverge and I wanted to jot this down as it got my brain spinning. If you want to have a clue what is going on, read the article first. ...
Yesterday I learnt my bus had no brakes. I learnt this on the 97 highway north after noticing a leak at a grocery store and booking in an appointment to get it looked at. I had told them I think it might be leaking brake fluid. After arriving safely (thank gosh) and learning first hand why buildings have concrete blocks in front of parking spaces, I headed inside to confirm I had indeed been leaking brake fluid, and my brakes no longer worked, although luckily the leak had stopped for some reason. ...
You take photos? Where do you put them? Where is the Bus now? Which country are you in? I’m asked regularly where I am, what I’m up to. How glorious, to have friends who care. I want to use social media, I want to document, log, blog, vlog and express the now creatively for friends and family. But I just can’t make myself care about Social Media. I can’t make myself post on Instagram regularly. I know browsing it ends up with doomscrolling in Reels, every swipe closer to death. ...