philmod
@philmod.bsky.social
Rocket scientist, converted to software. Team lead at H company. Ex-Googler. Belgian. Traveller. Musician. Egg Sommelier. Opinions are my own.
Every airport should have a post box in the departure area. Really!
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Every airport should have a post box in the departure area. Really!
TIL: we can use Markdown in Google Docs! support.google.com/docs/answer/...
Use Markdown in Google Docs, Slides, & Drawings - Google Docs Editors Help
To add formatting to plain text documents, you can use a markup language called Markdown. For example, to create a heading, start a line with a hashtag followed by a space, like "# Heading". You can u
support.google.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
TIL: we can use Markdown in Google Docs! support.google.com/docs/answer/...
Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa...
The difficulty is how to move from disposable to trusted code imho? How to take a huge bunch of code and make it production ready?
The difficulty is how to move from disposable to trusted code imho? How to take a huge bunch of code and make it production ready?
Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World
Every day I seem to run into yet another post with someone solemnly opining that “writing code has never been the hardest part of software engineering. And hey, that’s smashing.
www.honeycomb.io
October 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa...
The difficulty is how to move from disposable to trusted code imho? How to take a huge bunch of code and make it production ready?
The difficulty is how to move from disposable to trusted code imho? How to take a huge bunch of code and make it production ready?
Reposted by philmod
Depuis 2005 aux USA, 93% des assassinats commis par des extrémistes sont le fait de l'extrême droite. Partout, l'antiwokisme s'impose pour invisibiliser ces crimes dont il est complice par ses silences et ses outrances.
September 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Depuis 2005 aux USA, 93% des assassinats commis par des extrémistes sont le fait de l'extrême droite. Partout, l'antiwokisme s'impose pour invisibiliser ces crimes dont il est complice par ses silences et ses outrances.
Why do LLM coding models add so many emojis in the code/logs? Is it widely done in public repos?
September 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Why do LLM coding models add so many emojis in the code/logs? Is it widely done in public repos?
Less experienced engineers overly rely on LLMs without understanding the output, adding more work on the reviewers. metr.org/blog/2025-07...
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we…
metr.org
July 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Less experienced engineers overly rely on LLMs without understanding the output, adding more work on the reviewers. metr.org/blog/2025-07...
Je cherchais des documentaires animaliers pour enfants sur Netflix sur Google. Pas certain que les options 1 et 3 soient appropriées ...
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Je cherchais des documentaires animaliers pour enfants sur Netflix sur Google. Pas certain que les options 1 et 3 soient appropriées ...
The quality of software engineering is worrisome these days. Less experienced engineers rely so much on LLMs, don't always check the generated code nor understand it. Thus reviews take much longer, as I need to ask more questions, and even sometimes help them understand their own code.
July 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The quality of software engineering is worrisome these days. Less experienced engineers rely so much on LLMs, don't always check the generated code nor understand it. Thus reviews take much longer, as I need to ask more questions, and even sometimes help them understand their own code.
The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
misguided thoughts
blog.swgillespie.me
June 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...
Understanding and Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/coding-the...
Understanding and Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch
KV caches are one of the most critical techniques for efficient inference in LLMs in production.
magazine.sebastianraschka.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Understanding and Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/coding-the...
Surfer-H Meets Holo1: Cost-Efficient Web Agent Powered by Open Weights arxiv.org/abs/2506.02865
Surfer-H Meets Holo1: Cost-Efficient Web Agent Powered by Open Weights
We present Surfer-H, a cost-efficient web agent that integrates Vision-Language Models (VLM) to perform user-defined tasks on the web. We pair it with Holo1, a new open-weight collection of VLMs…
arxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Surfer-H Meets Holo1: Cost-Efficient Web Agent Powered by Open Weights arxiv.org/abs/2506.02865
Some recruiter called my phone, they said they got my phone number through LinkedIn? Is that possible??
April 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Some recruiter called my phone, they said they got my phone number through LinkedIn? Is that possible??
Lots of people trying to guess the future of AI. Interesting story. ai-2027.com
AI 2027
A research-backed AI scenario forecast.
ai-2027.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Lots of people trying to guess the future of AI. Interesting story. ai-2027.com
PLEASE! youtube.com/shorts/64TNG...
AI Coding in 2024 be like
YouTube video by Programmers are also human
youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
PLEASE! youtube.com/shorts/64TNG...
It always surprises me that GitHub status page is not automatically updated with issues in real-time. There are clearly more issues than the ones stated. www.githubstatus.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It always surprises me that GitHub status page is not automatically updated with issues in real-time. There are clearly more issues than the ones stated. www.githubstatus.com
Its data? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...
OpenAI Says DeepSeek May Have Improperly Harvested Its Data
The San Francisco start-up claims that its Chinese rival may have used data generated by OpenAI technologies to build new systems.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Its data? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...
"A rich world model cannot be acquired from language alone"
Ingredients of understanding
Thoughts on how human understanding is different from LLM "understanding"
buff.ly
January 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"A rich world model cannot be acquired from language alone"
One of the reasons I left the USA last year was to avoid getting back to this weird constant feeling of anxiety while Trump was last president. Today, I want to avoid having these feelings back, I hope it doesn't mean having to leave Bluesky too. youtu.be/t7pH36-5UBo?...
Trump is back. What now?
YouTube video by Hasan Minhaj
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
One of the reasons I left the USA last year was to avoid getting back to this weird constant feeling of anxiety while Trump was last president. Today, I want to avoid having these feelings back, I hope it doesn't mean having to leave Bluesky too. youtu.be/t7pH36-5UBo?...
It must already be hard to be a teen today, pressured by social media standards set by a few.
I'm worried that it's gonna be even harder now with all these AI generated models that don't represent the reality.
I'm worried that it's gonna be even harder now with all these AI generated models that don't represent the reality.
January 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It must already be hard to be a teen today, pressured by social media standards set by a few.
I'm worried that it's gonna be even harder now with all these AI generated models that don't represent the reality.
I'm worried that it's gonna be even harder now with all these AI generated models that don't represent the reality.
"LLMs Don't Have a Coherent Model of the World" - What it Means, Why it Matters
"LLMs Don't Have a Coherent Model of the World" - What it Means, Why it Matters — LessWrong
There are a variety of problems with LLMs, and I want to argue that they are all somewhat related, and are related to the idea of having a model of t…
buff.ly
January 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"LLMs Don't Have a Coherent Model of the World" - What it Means, Why it Matters
"An LLM is like an actor in improv, playing the role of an expert, but lacking the expertise, since they don’t have an internal model of the world, so they will make things up that sound plausible."
Useful metaphors for LLMs
Last updated Dec 2024 Last updated Dec 2024 PREAMBLE AI text generators: How LLMs work AI image generators: How Diffusion Models work Useful metaphors for thinking about what LLMs can and can’t do…
buff.ly
January 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"An LLM is like an actor in improv, playing the role of an expert, but lacking the expertise, since they don’t have an internal model of the world, so they will make things up that sound plausible."
It's so sad to see what's happening to Myanmar and its citizens. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/w...
We had the chance to travel there in 2015, and it was one of the best experience: very kind people who were so happy to share their amazing culture and food. bomod.exposure.co/myanmar
We had the chance to travel there in 2015, and it was one of the best experience: very kind people who were so happy to share their amazing culture and food. bomod.exposure.co/myanmar
Myanmar’s War Has Made It the Global Crime Capital
The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement across much of Asia.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:13 AM
It's so sad to see what's happening to Myanmar and its citizens. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/w...
We had the chance to travel there in 2015, and it was one of the best experience: very kind people who were so happy to share their amazing culture and food. bomod.exposure.co/myanmar
We had the chance to travel there in 2015, and it was one of the best experience: very kind people who were so happy to share their amazing culture and food. bomod.exposure.co/myanmar
In 2024, I aimed to dive more into books. https://buff.ly/4j6FYRk
It's not always easy with work and family, but thankfully, a short job hiatus made this goal more achievable.
It's not always easy with work and family, but thankfully, a short job hiatus made this goal more achievable.
December 30, 2024 at 12:22 PM
In 2024, I aimed to dive more into books. https://buff.ly/4j6FYRk
It's not always easy with work and family, but thankfully, a short job hiatus made this goal more achievable.
It's not always easy with work and family, but thankfully, a short job hiatus made this goal more achievable.