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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • My great grandmother was a Catawba, I spent a lot of time with her as a kid, and I remember her telling me about a few things. She used to make little trinkets and decorations because her grandmother taught her how, and I wish I had paid more attention because that’s so cool and I hate that her knowledge died with her.

    Instead, I was very little, so the only thing I actually got from her is some memories and my resilience against the sun. I’m a fairly pale lady due to being inside a lot, but I have an uncanny ability to recover from sunburn real quick, just like my mom and her mom. My wife will burn after 2-3 hours and be in pain for days but I’ll be fine the next morning after the same amount of time in the sun. The burn will have already become a tan.

    … But importantly, I have never used that to say I am not white, and it confuses the heck out of me that anyone does.










  • This is why my personal use of AI has been focused pretty cleanly on “doing what I already do, more thoroughly” - By not turning it into a “ship more code more faster” machine, it’s a “can explore my code and answer questions and help design things more thoroughly” machine.

    I tend to go with “AI-augmented” development because I’m shipping the same things I’ve been shipping - Just with a way to quickly brainstorm and compare ideas on something my team members may not have time for. I can propose my ideas and have some LLM tell me what the downsides of my approach would be - or what I should guard against.

    It’s crazy to me that folks are treating them like sources of truth when they should just be an untrustworthy second opinion that is faster than you. I think of it as an intern with speed but questionable taste lol.