There's a myth floating around that large language models (LLMs) like sonnet or gpt are mainly good for greenfield, one-off projects. It's true they're fantastic for brainstorming new ideas, prototyping quickly, or scaffolding out fresh codebases. But what's surprising—and actually much more exciting—is how effectively you can deploy them against legacy code.| the scapegoat dev
You've probably heard about vibe coding—using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Copilot to program via natural language. There’s been a fair amount of hype, skepticism, and frankly, confusion around whether these models can really handle the complexity of big codebases.| the scapegoat dev
(This is part of a longer series of short essays I'm writing as part of a marketing writing course. This is the first article I think is meaty enough to be published here. I will rework most of my material once the course is over.)| the scapegoat dev
I am notoriously distracted and both my long and short term memories are less reliable than a hobbyist's kubernetes cluster. After 20 years of python, I still can't remember what the arguments to split are.| the scapegoat dev
I have been playing with Tarot a little bit over the last year, inspired by hanging out with mysticism connaisseur Bob Doto and Xe Iaso's Tarot for Hackers. I like divergent creative methods and my brain seems to gel with that kind of thinking anyway.| the scapegoat dev
One of the things I'm happiest about since slowly recovering from burnout is leveraging my slightly manic creative energy and obsessive note taking to do software design. I spend a lot of time in grasshopper-mode, bouncing from idea to idea, weaving threads together, writing everything down in my sketchbooks, trying to capture as much details as I can so that I will be able to retrace my steps. I usually fill one 60 page sketchbook every month or so. This habit came from when I was learning h...| the scapegoat dev
I recently listened to the go time episode about neurodiversity and found it pretty upsetting. I found that Johnny brought up a lot of problematic ableist statements that I feel didn't get the pushback they deserved from his co-hosts. This detracted from the actual message they wanted to convey.| the scapegoat dev
Content Warning: IBS, chronic illness, suicide, mental health| the scapegoat dev
Last couple of bandcamp hauls.| the scapegoat dev
I see that one of is making the rounds. Most of these articles focus on the technologies themselves and forget that the developers behind them or using ...| the scapegoat dev
I like 🖥 computers, and I like 📝 writing about them! I also have 🧠 an Obsidian vault where I dump most of my notes. I make 🎵 music as slono. I like 🎨 drawing and 🖊 handwriting too!| the scapegoat dev
Over the last twenty years, I have used over a dozen languages professionally, from C to Common Lisp, from Java to Python, from C++ to Typescript. Yet, I ...| the scapegoat dev