
Jacob Matson
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excel user & data enthusiast. Dev Advocacy @MotherDuck
Seattle, WA
Joined July 2008
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Here's my 6 hour conversation with @dhh, a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, author, and race car driver. This was a fun and inspiring conversation on everything from the future of programming & AI to the nature of happiness & productivity to the value of family,
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Riffing on this a bit more:. For “closed” problems where you can explicitly assert correctness, they are great. For “open” problems where correctness is a matter of taste, I find myself spending a lot of time trying to write rules so that the problems look like “closed” ones.
it’s interesting, working with LLMs. for code: unlocks a bunch of stuff for me on the front end (js, react etc) that i otherwise couldn’t do (w/o lots of practice). for writing: largely terrible / slop, seems very hard to coerce good results. gonna try to keep tuning setup tho.
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On the research assistant point:.
can we start a thread for AI life hacks. i’ll go first:. - for anything important, i don’t manually write prompts anymore. i have AI write the prompt. “i want to run a deep research query for generating a product spec on consumer AI apps backed by market research. write the.
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