In my last post, Where have all the Engineers gone?, I wrestled with some tough questions we're facing today, in the age of AI-powered engineering. I can't just leave it there... Just as the rise of automation and CI/CD pipelines reshaped operations teams by forcing traditional sysadmins to upskill into DevOps engineers or risk obsolescence, we’re... Continue Reading →
Context Switching and LLMs – A Cognitive Parallel
Photo by Mike van den Bos on Unsplash We've all been there: managing many moving pieces in our heads and then, BLAM, Slack dings, we’ve lost our perfect mental model faster than closing an unsaved file. Working with LLM agents has upped the ante in terms of what we have to keep in context in... Continue Reading →
When a Prompt Isn’t Enough: Rethinking Your Approach to AI
I've spent considerable time crafting prompts for numerous professional and personal tasks and projects: knowledge retrieval, research, productivity, writing, gaming, and media. Over time, I've developed my preferred prompt-writing style. I’ve learned a few tips along the way, and expect to learn more soon. How do we write the best prompts? Keep it simple. Before... Continue Reading →
