Today I’m thinking about discernment.| Sam Bleckley | Writing
On the hidden robustness of slow and expensive systems| sambleckley.com
How things fail is the most interesting part| sambleckley.com
Modernizing Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy| sambleckley.com
Don't introduce complications to your team unless they're actually tools.| sambleckley.com
When dealing with complex systems, think about effects, not intentions| sambleckley.com
A product is something someone will pay for. A viable product is one you can sell for more than it costs to produce. A minimum viable product is the easiest thing you can make with those properties, where “ease” depends on your specific circumstances: the time, money, resources, and skills you have available to you| Sam Bleckley | Writing
In my opinion, the most exciting uses of LLMs don’t involve generating text at all.| Sam Bleckley | Writing
I hang out with writers and artists along with technical people, and the conversation frequently turns to generative AI, both the text and image kind. The sentiment is rarely positive, and I am sympathetic. I think generative AI is overhyped, the wrong choice for many situations, and is already costing people their livelihoods.| Sam Bleckley | Writing
How I think about AI in 2024 (Part 1 of 3)| sambleckley.com
on the business and design of generative AI| sambleckley.com