/tags/ai/ Recent content in ai on Further Heitz Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Kelly Heitz Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /post/liner-notes-for-a-venn-diagram/ Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /post/liner-notes-for-a-venn-diagram/ At a friend’s job, they ask newcomers what the kids movie song for their career would be. It’s an oddly revealing question (I suppose unexpected queries have that advantage even if I think asking someone how many golfballs would fill a schoolbus is pretty obnoxious. I’m not sure that it’s any more ridiculous and aggravating than making experienced professionals design high scale systems alone on a whiteboard in front of a panel of dudes named John and Dave) /post/ai-stole-my-side-project/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /post/ai-stole-my-side-project/ Learning to Code before LLMs The standard advice when I was a new engineer for learning how to code was to pick a project you really wanted to do and try to make progress on it. I found this supremely unhelpful, because if I threw out some ideas, it would turn out everything I wanted to make was not beginner-friendly (“you need a database for that! you’d have to figure out graphics!