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Senior Engineers Build Consensus (2019)
To be an effective senior engineer, you need to convince others to help you execute.
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Aligned to whom?
You are relying very heavily on the priors of the model to do a good job for you. What happens when you cannot judge whether those priors are good?
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Reflections on Learning Rust by Building Punchtop
To learn Rust, I implemented an audio game. There were some things I liked and some things I didn't. Some things were easy and some were hard. And there were plenty of libraries that were a joy to use.