commit aabe54f467af83e555d5238032d0ff2215cd7991 Author: ajet Date: Sat Nov 15 09:06:26 2025 -1000 init commit diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d0aec7f --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +# Ajet's Blog + +## Some thoughts to be written about (in no particular order): +- [X] Write some stuff so the dead internet can read it +- [ ] Why I don't use AI to write (code, English, reports, etc) + - Tool or task master. Slave to the machine? + - Even though my writing is poor +- [ ] Shipping AI in production + - When is this not a terrible idea? + - What can it actually do well? + - The hard parts +- [ ] Why I don't post on twitter, and don't care what you post either +- [ ] Write some stuff so that i can remember it (knowledge graphs? Emacs org mode? New vim org mode plugin idea?!) +- [ ] Why lisp is the bee's knees +- [ ] columnar/ortho life, keyboards, ergonomics, fun, and self reinforcing feedback loops +- [ ] bikes are cool +- [ ] go to sleep (early and consistently) +- [ ] be a producer, not a consumer +- [ ] stick a queue in it + - Decouple all the things +- [ ] do more, expect more +- [ ] less is more + - worse is better, maybe? +- [ ] RTFM. Read the source material. Know the page reference. Understand the history +- [ ] being the dumbest guy in the room +- [ ] being the smartest guy in the room +- [ ] writing is hard, how to not suck at it? + - research not yet started. See above list to implement diff --git a/blog/hello-world.md b/blog/hello-world.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3fd283b --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/hello-world.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +## "Hello, Dead Internet" from a Carrot Farmer + +The year was 2019. React.js is sweeping through the hearts and minds of enterprise JavaScript engineers. Moving outside of Facebook/Meta, it has even infected every hipster with a Macbook that is too young to have learned ruby on rails when it was first made cool. The sad Angular developer has recently rewritten his entire code-base due to breaking changes. The complexities of state management intensify as we all wander through the dark. We rewrite our code bases 12 more times in the years to come. So many frameworks to burn out in. + +Thus the wise angular developer retires, sells his stock after the start up IPO, and moves to the country side. Once freed from the false promises of the virtual DOM and the rigorous of centering divs, he has more time to tend to his carrot farm and other fertile ground (such as games, embedded, IOT, servers/back-end, ML/AI etc) + +The need for twitter has not occurred to such a dev (or really most normal people). Anything sufficiently salient will be stolen from twitter and re-posted on or written about in a more meaningful medium (where meaningful can be defined by the signal:noise ratio of useful content). This phenomenona is more commonly observed with TikTok feeding the ever growing number of short-form video clones. How many slop video were NOT copied over due to the filtering by so many millions of users which have biased towards some minimum bare of quality. + +Half a decade passes and the carrots still grow. The servers still hum. The 200 OKs are still returned. Everything is fine in the countryside. And he still doesn't care about twitter or X or threads or whatever flavor of the week. More generally, most people don't feel the need to post things on the internet. But there are now headlines of AI ministers in charge of states or AI generals in charge of the battlefield. The training data available to the decision making apparatus is skewed towards representing a vocal minority. There are several AI researchers and philosophers that have identified a unique lack of signal stemming from this non-vocal majority. As such, they advocate for individuals to write. Share your thoughts. Be represented by choice. Opt into "voting". What a bastardized way to vote. How insulting that I am required to leave the countryside. Old man yells at clouds. Surely that will change minds on the internet ;) + +One might even say that AI researchers have a vested interest in getting you to share your ideas. More tokens for them to take and call their own. More IP that is no longer yours because we've goaded each other into thinking that open source is the only valuable way to do knowledge sharing and progress. + +"There is no inherent goodness, there is only suitability constraints" - Rich Hickey + +The text garden has been created. My farming skills are poor. My time to tend the crop is limited and cuts into other ventures. Maybe the crop will be fruitful in time. It doesn't really matter how hard the work is. Only the yield is noted by the passerby. Many seeds have been planted already. Roots are more adept as catching vitamins from the soil than the ephemeral musings of the probing mind. Observations made in the hammock may stay there forever if not capture well enough. The impedence mismatch between the inspired musing of the correct or incorrect mind and the tablet that remains could explain the reality of ever growing complexity, incompatibility, and lack of stability as the scale of software grows. What is the intern to do when left with incorrect documentation? What is the LLM to do when left with twitter?