Articles by gfysfm
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Blog about things you don't understand yet (seangoedecke.com)

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Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove (seangoedecke.com)

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What's so hard about continuous learning? (seangoedecke.com)

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Anti-AI nostalgia and the cult of the past (seangoedecke.com)

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Screwing Up (seangoedecke.com)

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Blood in the Datacenter (seangoedecke.com)

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I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes" (seangoedecke.com)

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Screwing Up (seangoedecke.com)

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SkiFreedle, a daily game version of SkiFree (1991) (skifreedle.com)

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What's so hard about continuous learning? (seangoedecke.com)

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We are in the "gentleman scientist" era of AI research (seangoedecke.com)

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How does AI impact skill formation? (seangoedecke.com)

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Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter (seangoedecke.com)

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How good engineers write bad code at big companies (seangoedecke.com)

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It's not surprising that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail (seangoedecke.com)

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Solving the inference problem for open source AI projects with GitHub Models (github.blog)

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Scan and resolve fixed GitHub issues and PRs with AI (github.com/ashleywolf)

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Show HN: OpenAI Codex for Free with GitHub Models (gist.github.com)

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The Illusion of "The Illusion of Thinking" (seangoedecke.com)

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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern" (seangoedecke.com)

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The OpenAI house style is exhausting (seangoedecke.com)

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Designing software that could possibly work (seangoedecke.com)

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Dangerous Advice for Software Engineers (seangoedecke.com)

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How to work in tech when your job isn't safe (seangoedecke.com)

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Reduce, Reuse, Refactor (stevenlaidlaw.com)

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Model Context Protocol explained as simply as possible (seangoedecke.com)

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What's next after the AI bubble bursts? (seangoedecke.com)

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Building your sense of what's important at a tech company (seangoedecke.com)

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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff (seangoedecke.com)

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How I know I'm working with a strong engineer (seangoedecke.com)

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Beyond Prompting (seangoedecke.com)

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Engineers Who Won't Commit (seangoedecke.com)

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Learning how to think better from LLMs (seangoedecke.com)

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To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't (seangoedecke.com)

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Lessons on thinking from large language models (seangoedecke.com)

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Is it cynical to do what your manager wants? (seangoedecke.com)

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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer (seangoedecke.com)

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Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? (seangoedecke.com)

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Are DeepSeek's new models really that fast and cheap? (seangoedecke.com)

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Playing politics is how senior engineers protect their team (seangoedecke.com)

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What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning models with R1? (seangoedecke.com)

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Writing a tech blog people want to read (seangoedecke.com)

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Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies (seangoedecke.com)

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How to Give Pushback to Leadership (leaddev.com)

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What it's like working for American companies as an Australian (seangoedecke.com)

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Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies (seangoedecke.com)

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Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases (seangoedecke.com)

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How I got promoted to staff engineer twice (seangoedecke.com)

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What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? (seangoedecke.com)

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Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work (seangoedecke.com)

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Grifters, Believers, Grinders, and Coasters (seangoedecke.com)

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I don't know how to build software and you don't either (seangoedecke.com)

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How I ship projects at big tech companies (seangoedecke.com)

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Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml (seangoedecke.com)

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Watch six different LLMs play Texas Hold'em against each other (github.com/sgoedecke)

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Making AI models compete for food in a virtual tank (github.com/sgoedecke)

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MCTS and LLMs: what's the big deal? (seangoedecke.com)

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Using squeezed wav2vec2 to automatically detect owl calls (seangoedecke.com)

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Porting and hacking Llama2.c for fun and profit (seangoedecke.com)