Geoffrey Huntley

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It's an uncertain time for our profession, but one thing is certain—things will change. Drafting used to require a room of engineers, but then CAD came along... 🌉 bridged from https://ghuntley.com/ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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cognitive security

This is a follow-up from my previous post about AI as an economic weapon. If you haven't read it, I suggest that you do before proceeding. AI as economic warfarePeople often ask me how I feel about o…

Mar 16·5 min read·905 words

AI as economic warfare

People often ask me how I feel about open-source models, and to be clear, I'm very supportive of them. But I can't help pondering about the following... Open source always was and always will be a fi…

Mar 16·5 min read·851 words

porting software has been trivial for a while now. here’s how you do it.

This one is short and sweet. if you want to port a codebase from one language to another here’s the approach: 1. Run a ralph loop which compresses all tests into /specs/.md which looks similar to “s…

Mar 15·2 min read·311 words

A couple of days ago, I sat down with Vivek Bharathi and dumped my brains. Here's the interview...

0:00 /11:14 1× Below you'll find an AI transcription of everything we riffed about. Key distinction: Software Development vs. Software Engineering: * Soft…

Mar 12·3 min read·483 words

a sneak preview behind an embedded software factory. I suspect rapid application dev is back

Hey folks, I'm currently over in SF. For the last couple of weeks, I've been cryptically tweeting about a hidden mode within something I've been building on called Latent Patterns (see below), and ove…

Mar 9·11 min read·2080 words

Software development now costs less than than the wage of a minimum wage worker

Hey folks, the last year I've been pondering about this and doing game theory around the discovery of Ralph, how good the models are getting and how that's going to intersect with society. What follow…

Feb 27·14 min read·2800 words

teleporting into the future and robbing yourself of retirement projects

I'm going to make this a really quick one because this is doing the rounds, and whilst I've tweeted about it, it's time to dig in. Pragmatic Engineer's @GergelyOrosz is on a "secret email list" of ag…

Feb 5·6 min read·1158 words

llm weights vs the papercuts of corporate

In woodworking, there's a saying that you should work with the grain, not against the grain and I've been thinking about how this concept may apply to large language models. These large language mode…

Dec 8·5 min read·869 words