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Prompt Engineering is Configuration Engineering
Ironically, one of the most challenging aspects of distributed systems is configuration management. Consensus, fault tolerance, leader election, and…
SEO Inside AI
What does SEO look like in a world where most queries are LLM-assisted in some way? Keyword stuffing (at train time). It might be possible to keyword…
A List of Things I Was Wrong About
I’ve been writing this blog daily for almost two years. A look at how my ideas have changed and what I was completely wrong about (90% of everything is…
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The ChatGPT Plugin Specification
ChatGPT plugins can call external services to augment answers. They might run a code interpreter or access an API like OpenTable or Zapier. There isn’t…
The Local Development Story
How do you run software locally for testing, development, or experimentation? This is probably the key question for most developer-focused products, and…
Twitter and the Idea Maze
The idea maze maps out all permutations of a general idea — which combination of features and strategies have been tried, failed, successful, or…
The New Tax on Engineering Against the Grain
What was previously Google's biggest strength might prevent it from innovating in the future — Diseconomies of Scale at Google With the future of…
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