Here’s a management anti-pattern I see constantly: developers using one AI model for everything. It’s like hiring a brilliant systems architect and asking them to write CSS, review PRs, design your logo, AND refactor your database queries. Sure, they can do it. But should they? I run a five-model AI development team. Each has a…
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Wearing a new hat while playing poker
I like to use the analogy of owning and running a company and the similarities it has with playing poker. When I play poker, I like to know my percentages for winning, weigh my risks, be bold when needed, and read the room. To be a successful company, you need to identify and understand the…
How to over-complicate hosting a website
Yes, I have enjoyed over-complicating my website architecture to keeps my boredom low, but I also made it a cheap solution for $2.06/month. I anticipate that I could grow my website readers by 5,000,000 people a month and my costs would remain roughly the same. Okay, I don’t like the word “cheap” so I will…
Anti-Insanity Vacation Helper
We belong to a timeshare organization called Interval International. Yes, we were suckered into this relationship about 10 years ago. However, we do the math every year and it still pencils out for us to use a timeshare company to schedule most of our vacations. We get about 3 to 4 weeks of vacations a…