limitedfocus
@limitedfocus.bsky.social
Software engineer. Remote work / management enthusiast. I like gaming, gardening, the outdoors and sea salt in the breeze. Keeping life simple is a hobby of mine. I generally try to listen more than I speak.
I often wished there was a bar in the luggage collection hall so I could sit back and enjoy a cocktail while the carousel hunger games plays out. Then I'll come in and grab my bags when they're the only ones left.
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I often wished there was a bar in the luggage collection hall so I could sit back and enjoy a cocktail while the carousel hunger games plays out. Then I'll come in and grab my bags when they're the only ones left.
I found this too! My teens decided to learn about network security, specifically, something called a VPN?
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I found this too! My teens decided to learn about network security, specifically, something called a VPN?
If you are said tall child, you will be remarked as being tall, and furthermore be questioned about whether you play basketball. Every single time.
September 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
If you are said tall child, you will be remarked as being tall, and furthermore be questioned about whether you play basketball. Every single time.
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the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought
June 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought
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Wrote a bit about this the other day in a business context - the "AI writes the first draft and I edit" approach kills any possibility of effective editing because it kills the process by which understanding emerges.
The process is the point
Using LLMs to rush the design process to the output at the end cuts out the very feedback loop that makes design worth doing in the first place.
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February 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Wrote a bit about this the other day in a business context - the "AI writes the first draft and I edit" approach kills any possibility of effective editing because it kills the process by which understanding emerges.
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The "gamechanger" rhetoric about ... many tech things... is not only people stating their beliefs, it's people stating their wishes in an effort to influence consumers, decisionmakers, markets, and investment. It's like when little kids say in the hearing of their parents "I wish I had a cookie."
January 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The "gamechanger" rhetoric about ... many tech things... is not only people stating their beliefs, it's people stating their wishes in an effort to influence consumers, decisionmakers, markets, and investment. It's like when little kids say in the hearing of their parents "I wish I had a cookie."