forking vscode? simple. extensions not so simple. they are controlled by microsoft. without them you’ll run into continual papercuts as a vendor who has forked vscode.
This is the 9-month recap of my "The Future Belongs to People Who Do Things" talk.
Inside:
- The problems with AGENTS . md
- The problems with LLM model selectors
- Best practices for LLM context windows
- AI usage mandates at employers
- Employment performance review dynamic changes
- The world's first vibe-coded emoji RPN calculator in COBOL
- The world's first vibe-coded genz compiler (CURSED)
and a final urge to do things, as this is perhaps the last time I deliver this talk. It's been nine months since the invention of tool-calling LLMs, and VC subsidies have already started to disappear.
If people haven't taken action, they're falling behind because it's becoming increasingly cost-prohibitive to undertake personal upskilling.
Well, actually, the funny story is Cursed is actually three different compilers:
1. It was first written in C
2. Then it was rewritten in Rust
3. Finally, it was rewritten in Zig
All part of research, learning how to drive these models and discover their underlying behaviours. I reckon you could get a comparable compiler going in under a month or less for less than $4k USD.
A principal software engineer who is known to write and do conference keynotes about AI. Skillset-wise - a weird mix of software engineering, infrastructure, engineering management, and marketing with a security background. My current focus is automating job functions with AI and teaching people how to do it. I'm currently conducting interview loops.
> So it’s better to work on problems that get progressively more complete towards a known objective rather than problems that require exploration.
Yes. The longest I've had a self-directing agent loop running is a cumulative of three months. One goal, one purpose. Every now and then I modify the prompt in the background, and the agent picks up the updated prompt on the next loop.
