Is this different than the previous maker phases? “This matters because the scenius phase is where the internal transformation actually happens. When you spend two years making useless Arduino projects, you develop instincts about electronics, materials, and design that you… Read More »Vibe Coding and the Maker Movement
I often see that people not capable of dealing with their issue like to pass the solving of the issue to someone else. It can be as trivial as setting up a notification rules for an app. It is easier… Read More »Having Others Solve Your Incompetence
Using capitalism as Marxist argument. Fun and interesting read. “This is why its solutions never solve. A solved problem is a eliminated budget line. A managed problem is a permanent revenue stream.” https://tantaman.com/2026-01-27-what-would-marx-say-today
Current AI paradigm might become for IT what String theory is for Physics. “What happened next was not a reasoned evaluation of competing paradigms. It was a gold rush. Google hired Geoffrey Hinton. Facebook hired Yann LeCun. Baidu hired Andrew… Read More »Why We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works
The terminology of AI is wrong. “At minimum, an agent has beliefs — not hunches, not vibes, but quantifiable representations of what it thinks is true and how certain it is. An agent has goals — not a prompt that… Read More »Agentic AI Is Neither Intelligent Nor an Agent
Not everything needs to be monetized. “The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial “logic” that we’ve lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing… Read More »The Noble Path
I am giving Mastodon and social media in general another go after a while. Here is what I have noticed immediately – even after years of social media detox, my brain immediately craves for next posts. I love RSS, and… Read More »Once You Are a Junkie, Always a Junkie
If you are an engineer, have a responsibility for your actions.
Education has many advantages, but fixing disputes isn’t one of them. “But education does not—cannot—produce agreement on contested values. It cannot bridge axiom gaps. It cannot compel belief in those who smell the compulsion. It cannot cure the biases of… Read More »Education Cannot Save Us
Early retirement was always the default. “Even during the commercial efflorescence of the late Republic and Principate, no one argued that accumulation was virtuous in itself. The rich man who kept working when he could afford otium was pitiable or… Read More »Burnout is a Modern Invention