“So I prompted Cursor to write me some code, and what it gave me didn’t even compile! AGI my ass. Wake me up when these AI coders are no longer stupid.” Interviewer: Next task — on the white board over there, please write me an algorithm in JavaScript that inserts
Welcome to Hallucination Weekly — my new experimental way to share what is on my radar in terms of AI, in a short(er) and more skimmable form. With the AI industry in its state of extreme hype, and zero sign that this will change any time soon, the most common
I can’t go to parties anymore without the topic of AI coming up. “How can I get started with vibe coding? What AI code editor should I use?” I attend parties with a very specific audience. Indeed, parties filled with cool people. Inevitably the party devolves into an ad-hoc
Ever since generative AI came into vogue I’ve been intrigued. Yet, I could never quite put my finger on why exactly this was. I think I finally figured it out, though. I’ve spent a large chunk of my life (perhaps too much of it) understanding computers: how they
For the past years I’ve been spending a lot of my time thinking (and writing) about the human side of engineering. Topics like leadership, management, psychology, humanity. The trivial things. But I cracked that nut. Done. There’s just not enough space in this post to fit the answer.
Human Behavior Demystified Nature History and Context0:00/1114.0440821× My job is changing. I'll maybe share more about this later, but let me already share that it's going to be more AI focused. As part of this journey, I'm experimenting with a whole
The holidays are coming, for those that celebrate. For this occasion, let me share one of my own family’s old holiday traditions. One that, I have to admit, was recklessly ruined by uncle Melv in the late ‘60s. We don’t speak of uncle Melv anymore in our family.
“So, I stand in front of the class to introduce myself and guess what: nobody knew they were going to have a new teacher! Can you believe it?” My wife started a new job as an English teacher a few weeks ago. Her onboarding was somewhat bumpy. “You know, you
“Well, that’s pretty silly, they should just...” I’m sorry, but let me stop you right there. Just don’t. No, Zef. No. Before you share your wisdom and all your amazing insight, let me tell you a bit about yourself — or any other human for that matter. Yes,
“I got up and then I found a berry. And then I ate it. And then I went hunting with Andre. And then Andre was killed by a Mammoth. And then I was sad. And then I found another berry. And then I ate it. And then I felt better.
Krav Maga is a self-defense sport originally developed by the Israeli military. It takes a “no-frills” approach to self defense. Whereas in Eastern martial arts like Kung-Fu or Aikido, one may learn elaborate, beautiful, dance-like responses to an attack, in Krav Maga you simply learn to kick ‘em in the
While people differ in many ways, there’s at least one constraint that unites us all: time. Whether you were born an third-world country or The OC, whether you are tall or short, senior or junior — your number of hours in a day, days in a week, weeks in a
A few years ago, I started to dabble with Scratch with my oldest son. Scratch is a visual programming environment that has a nice and low barrier to entry. You visit a web site and start dragging and dropping blocks around, hit a Run button to instantly see your changes
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“Dude, you have blood spatters on your shirt...” That’s what I should have said as I entered the surgeon’s office last Friday for some minor surgery. I didn’t. Now, we all realize that surgery involves cutting. There is going to be blood involved. However, greeting your next
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As my oldest son (10) walks downstairs, he sighs deeply and audibly. “That was quite something!” He is doing his usual dramatic my life is so tough thing again. “Tell us, what is this challenging achievement of yours?” “I put my laundry in my closet. All of it.” “You mean
“So this company Zef mentioned, the one where his new boss told him on his first day that half the people should be fired, that’s us, right?” I was catching up with a former colleague this week. One of his team members had read my post, and assumed it
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We had an interesting training on entrepreneurial behaviors at the company this week. We were asked to rank the following behaviors from “Most often” to “Least often” used. We were given them unordered, but this is how I ordered them for myself: 1. Reflect 2. Desire to have an impact
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That was awesome all! 🥳 Thanks for all the extra hours, the extra push to make this release happen! Let’s never do that again. I have career-long struggles with many things, and deadlines and big bang releases definitely make an appearance in my top 100. This struggle started probably around
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“Half of the people at this company should be fired. They’re not productive, don’t care about anything, and show zero sign of ownership. We should never have hired them.” This was what I heard from my new boss on my very first day. Welcome to the company indeed.
To sign up, please use this sheet. Apparently, not everybody saw my previous message so let me repeat: to sign up, please use this sheet. Thank you! Cross-posting for visibility @here And @here @all “ChatGPT, write an engaging slack post with the message ‘to sign up, use this sheet’ that
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“Yo, why did you not attend the event?” “I didn’t see the point, and had more important things to do.” “But it was mandatory!” “So what’s going to happen now?” “Well, I got this little notebook here with a list of names, see? What I’m going to
“So what do you think, Zef?” Ok, so this is embarrassing. Even though being present in a meeting and paying undivided attention is one of my virtues, I failed this time. I let myself get distracted by (admittedly hilarious) Slack messages from a colleague. While I shouldn’t have, I
I sometimes lie awake at night mentally preparing for a critical meeting. I’m a slow thinker, so when surprising things happen, there’s a risk that I effectively blank out. My coping mechanism is scenario planning. When I say A, how will others respond? If they respond with B,
Internal note: Until the announcement of the business pivot during the next all hands meeting, this document is to be considered confidential. Test chat transcript follows, copied verbatim. Frank: Hello there 👋 Let’s get to know each other a little bit. My name is Frank, and I’m a professional