Non-technical

From mathematical proofs to biological discoveries, AI is connecting ideas across disciplines, bringing new scale to Don Swanson's "undiscovered public knowledge".

I spent ages 14-16 in a maximum-security juvenile prison, became a felon at 19, lost almost everything to addiction, and later rebuilt my life through software, open source, and a few people who took a chance on me. This is the condensed story, written for anyone wondering whether they have a future.

LLMs have made generating code nearly free, but maintaining it hasn't changed. On the growing plague of code that shouldn't exist and the discipline of searching before building.

Integrating a third-party LLM SDK does not make you an AI Engineer: a rant on the inflation of job titles in the age of ChatGPT wrappers.

Reflections and hard-won lessons from a decade exploring over 20 psychedelic compounds.

A reflection on the impact of language models like Github Copilot on the experience on authoring software and the role of the developer