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I had a bit of a weird experience this weekend. I was bogged down debugging a personal tool I’m building, a sync engine between Raindrop.io and my reMarkable tablet, when I stumbled into a realization about the future of our craft. It wasn't that the AI was a genius programmer; it was that it brought the marginal cost of a wrong guess down to zero. It turned the Infinite Monkey Theorem from a philosophical absurdity into a viable engineering strategy where the marginal cost of a wrong guess is down to zero.

My former colleague Rebecca Parsons, has been saying for a long time that hallucinations aren’t a bug of LLMs, they are a feature. Indeed they are the feature. All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful.

Found out about this interview with Steve Jobs that the master was supposedly lost for a long time and released in full when finally found. The long format is a sneak peak into such a different time, he was still with NeXT and at some points during the interview very salty about the fight that forced him to leave Apple. Being able to hear what was going on in his head and his thought process at that giving time is such a blessing.

The most profound shift in my workflow isn't a new productivity app or a fancy monitor. It's the realization that my primary productivity tool is now just a collection of ongoing conversations with LLMs. This is a form of context farming: cultivating multiple, independent project contexts that I can dip in and out of with zero ramp-up time. The cognitive tax on switching between wildly different tasks was a cost we all just accepted. Now, that tax has been effectively eliminated. True multitasking, the kind the experts told us for years was a myth, is now not only possible but shockingly effective. The baseline for productivity has been redrawn, and the tools we used just a couple of years ago feel like they're built for a different cognitive era.

The modern web has a lot of power, yet I often find myself thinking about the 90s. Tools like Visual Basic, Delphi, and even Flash, didn't just let us build personal programs; they made it fun, mainly because they made starting so easy.

I read this article and it got me thinking that this problem of measuring ourselves by our wealth is not something new but it got worse with the internet and how many peers we have to compare ourselves with.