Development

This is a synthesis of ideas I’ve overheard, read, discussed, and learned first-hand. It draws on over three years exploring LLMs for shaping code. My initial notes for this were part of an internal workshop I hosted for our engineering team at TORTUS Health, where we use and improve these techniques every day as we work to eliminate error in medicine. The shifting bottlenecks With the explosion in LLM capabilities, producing syntax got cheap. But good judgement did not. In many ways, AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder. ...

As a learning exercise, I recently implemented simple-jax-nn, a simple neural net for the MNIST dataset, written with JAX. This post is my notes on using JAX (as a PyTorch / NumPy user) from working through the JAX docs and a NN tutorial. Simple JAX neural net I managed to get it to use my MacBook’s GPU/Accelerator through the Metal support in jax-metal. It’s a little bit tricky, but will prove useful in future transformer projects that can make use of the hardware. ...

A sorcerer’s guide to wielding chaotic and powerful magicks.

Embracing the exponentials and vibecoding an entire 3D game in a few days with Aider, o3-mini, and Claude 3.7 sonnet.

The development stories and roadmap for Orbital, my physics-based 3D simulator for realistic orbital maneuvers that runs in your browser with WebGL and Three.js.

A byte-sized guide to developing your taste and agency at the world’s best programming retreat.

How I spent my 12 weeks at the Recurse Center annihilating my skill issues, shipping projects, and having fun.

How I learned Svelte and outsmarted Vercel to make a delightful frontend to OpenAI’s DALL-E … just for my mom.

Links to the projects, games, blog posts, and tools I shipped in my 12 weeks at RC.

Week 43 of 2024. Week 11 of RC.