A little blog of questionable wisdom written by a builder of little games. I do a lot of little things these days. I hope some of them do a little good.

These posts are old and new, serious and absurd, technical yet philosophical. I’ve kept even the questionable bits—partly for nostalgia, mostly as proof that wisdom arrives slowly, if at all.

If you’d like to reach me and don’t already know how, LinkedIn is probably your best bet. Students, I’ll likely reply; salespeople, probably not.

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Are we cooked?

My students frequently ask me what LLMs mean for them as future software developers and data scientists. With little exaggeration it often comes across something along the lines of “low-key, are we cooked?”. The last one, if you are not one of my students, translates in millennial to “good esteemed professor, tell me true, are we f#@ked?” While I’ve given various off-the-cuff answers, I feel inspired to be more thoughtful in putting down more complete thoughts.

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