Abstract Heresies

Yeah, these posts about vibe coding are a bit tedious, but I got an interesting result. My hypothesis about vibe coding in Common Lisp ...

Revision 2 A thunk (in MIT parlance) is a function that takes no arguments and returns a value. Thunks are simple, opaque objects. T...

I had no luck vibe coding Common Lisp, but I'm pretty sure I know the reasons. First, Common Lisp doesn't have as much boilerplat...

I've been exploring LLMs these past few weeks. There is a lot of hype and confusion about them, so I thought I'd share some of my...

Many people with pointless psychology degrees make money by creating corporate training courses. But you don't need a fancy degree ...

Early on in my career at Google I attended an offsite seminar for grooming managers. We had the usual set of morning lectures, and then...

The more I have to deal with management, the more I have to deal with bullshit. The higher up in the management chain, the denser the b...