a few years ago, me shipping an ios app during junior year would've been a joke. i'd have needed a year just to learn swift, and i've got maybe an hour before school and whatever's left after homework. vibecoding flipped the bottleneck …
kept using AI for actual decisions, not "write my email" but real ones like whether to take a contract or an idea worth building, and i realized the answer just depended on which model i happened to open. one says go, one says wait, one hedge…
so i had this whole thing last week where i couldnt decide between two paths and i kept asking chatgpt about it. and every time it just kind of agreed with whatever way i phrased the question. ask it leaning one way, it backs that way. ask it leaning t…
hallucination is loud. you can catch a wrong date. agreement is silent. there's no error message for "this just told you what you wanted to hear." i've watched it happen to me a hundred times. i ask hopeful, it's hopeful. i ask sc…
small habit shift that's been surprisingly useful. instead of asking a model "is this a good idea," which basically invites it to agree with me, i now open with "give me the strongest case that this is a bad idea." then i ask th…
not the "write my email" stuff, i mean a real one. a job offer, a breakup, whether to move, whether to start the thing. i've been using AI for actual decisions lately and i keep going back and forth on whether it's genuinely helping m…
i've been throwing the same hard question at a few different models (or the same models) for a while now and honestly i've stopped caring where they agree. when they all land on the same answer it usually just means the question was easy, or th…
there's a pattern i keep seeing in multi-model setups (karpathy's llm council, the various "ask 5 models and combine" tools) and i think most of them are optimizing for the wrong thing. they treat agreement as the goal. run the questi…
i've been leaning on ai for real decisions lately. not "write me an email" stuff, actual ones. whether to take a contract, whether an idea's worth building, how to price something. and i kept running into the same thing: the answer to…
