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1 month ago

Greg Thomas

The Time Machine

Time Machines don’t exist; if they did, this post would have a different ending. And yet we hope they do for that one chance to go back and make a change that might completely change our life, but in the movies, it drastically alters everything about who we are.  And since we don’t have Time Machines, it’s hard to know if this is fact or fiction (currently the latter). You can’t change what happened, but you can change and influence what happens next. You don’t need to go back in time; you already know the answer of what you need

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

Who gets the “Cool” work?

If you can’t trust your team to do the boring, grunt, not that much interesting work to the best of their abilities, and pass in top-notch code and effort. Then they definitely should not be working on the cool stuff. Grunt work is the litmus test for whether they can handle the cool stuff.

1 month ago

Greg Thomas

You have Reached your Limit

I read the other day that the worst message Vibe Coders can receive in building their apps is – “You have Reached your Limit”. And then that is it for the next 4 – 8 hours if you wait for it to reset. The difference in developers is that their limit goes on far longer. We hit walls, and we keep going. We can’t find the answer, it spurs us on. Fuelled by tokens, no thanks, caffeine will do just fine (or possibly pizza, but Thai food works too). I’ve hit “reached your limit” and it wasn’t from tokens. Don’t

2 months ago

Greg Thomas

I got Next Game

Tokens in AI are like quarters in the arcade when you want to have the next game. But the token consumption is always going up, just like the really good games were mucho quarters. The whole point of the quarter on the screen was to put your money up there – “I’m going next” – you weren’t waiting for anyone. You were taking your chance, whether you lost to the champ or not. Now’s the time to put your quarter on the screen.