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LLMs reward expertise(seangoedecke.com)
1278 points by MaxMussio | 527 comments
Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing that the most important skill in prompting LLMs is expertise in the domain being prompted for.
Doing nothing at work(seangoedecke.com)
334 points by Sukram21 | 116 comments
Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should work fewer hours at ~80% utilization because tech company performance is dominated by outlier, high-impact events.
Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career(seangoedecke.com)
380 points by movis | 624 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog post arguing that because AI use reduces learning on the job, software engineering may no longer be a lifelong career.
How I estimate work(seangoedecke.com)
450 points by mattjhall | 268 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog post on how he approaches estimating software work as a staff engineer, arguing accurate estimation is impossible.
I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)
519 points by swah | 265 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.
How good engineers write bad code at big companies(seangoedecke.com)
348 points by gfysfm | 236 comments
Sean Goedecke blog post explaining why competent engineers at big tech companies produce sloppy code, citing short tenures and engineers working outside their expertise.
Seeing like a software company(seangoedecke.com)
327 points by praptak | 96 comments
Sean Goedecke essay applying James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State to software companies, contrasting legible tracked work with illegible essential work.
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work(seangoedecke.com)
1015 points by dondraper36 | 364 comments
Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.
Everything I know about good API design(seangoedecke.com)
347 points by ahamez | 120 comments
Blog post by Sean Goedecke sharing practical advice on designing good APIs, covering REST, GraphQL, and balancing familiarity with flexibility.
What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?(seangoedecke.com)
476 points by ingve | 173 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog post on training the best small GPT-style model possible on a MacBook Pro in five minutes, landing on a ~1.8M-parameter transformer trained on TinyStories.
OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5(seangoedecke.com)
372 points by emschwartz | 200 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog post arguing that OpenAI's open-weight gpt-oss models resemble Microsoft's Phi series, strong on benchmarks but weak on out-of-domain knowledge.
Diffusion models explained simply(seangoedecke.com)
123 points by onnnon | 25 comments
Patience too cheap to meter(seangoedecke.com)
48 points by swah | 17 comments
Engineers Who Won't Commit(seangoedecke.com)
30 points by kiyanwang | 34 comments
The good times in tech are over(seangoedecke.com)
108 points by swah | 125 comments
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases(seangoedecke.com)
695 points by BerislavLopac | 307 comments
Blog post by Sean Goedecke on common mistakes engineers make when working in large, decade-old codebases with hundreds of contributors.
How I ship projects at big tech companies(seangoedecke.com)
1297 points by gfysfm | 360 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog post on how he leads and ships projects at big tech companies, and the common mistakes engineers make when shipping.