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An interface is an abstraction implemented in code. Use it long enough and you learn to think through it. From Pokémon to GUIs to Requests: what are our tools teaching us to become better at?
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People should climb the abstraction ladder and give their jobs to AI agents that want them.Their words
Keep finding ways to climb that abstraction ladder! Your agent wants your job! Give it!
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Coding something from scratch is one of the best ways to truly understand how it works.Their words
So this one will not be coding-related, but coding from scratch is actually a very, very useful technique because it really helps you understand how something is implemented.
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And it's effectively the next step of, you know, every phase of of software evolution is just like a rising tide of abstractions. This is the next abstraction.
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Second, I think ML is a very shallow domain relative to math. So I think in math there's much more of a you find some true deep abstraction um and then like that like if you really understand that thing which is hard to understand then you get somewhere
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsTheir words
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson. SICP is my all-time favourite programming book. It's also where I learned about the power of wishful thinking when coding. SICP uses wishful thinking as a design tool: write code as if the abstraction already existed. Pretend. Then, once the ideal abstraction has taken shape, you go ahead and implement those functions. This meta-level is what made SICP so valuable. Ultimately, it's a book that teaches how to think about code and problem solving. I'm tempted to even say that SICP is more a work of art than a pure coding book, but I won't go there. A beautiful book.
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Then the actual system might still have bugs, but we can iron out the issues in the abstraction such that we don't actually build them in the real system.
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And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and trying to pick some agent framework off the shelf and some memory framework off the shelf.
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The CLI era of AI agents was a short detour — we made GUIs for a reason, and the work is moving back into one.Their words
And when you move into an actual UI for this, you start to realize um we made GUIs for a reason. And it's just nicer to be in a GUI.
22 April
From one piece I am building a cloud 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You cannot solve the fundamental problems with cloud abstractions by building new abstractions on top.
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VMs are the wrong cloud abstraction because they bundle CPU and memory into fixed-size units.Their words
VMs are the wrong shape because they are tied to CPU/memory resources.
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this sort of thing is only possible if you view other people as abstractions more than people.
18 September 2025
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An abstraction chosen wrongly at the start means a team can never make its software great, however good that team is.Their words
Just imagine you use very bad software and um the team that started the project decided early to use Xamarin and then they never had a chance of making this as good as all the other things you really appreciate on your phone due to this decision no matter how good they are.
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I think regulation of AI is sort of the wrong level of abstraction. Talking about regulating AI as AI is the wrong level of abstraction. And it's like saying we're going to regulate databases or regulate spreadsheets or regulate cars. Well, we do, but not like that.
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We can have a breakthrough in our agent architecture on Monday implemented on Tuesday and have it deployed with hundreds of our customers on Wednesday and directly see the impact of of that work.
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We are conscious because we are objects extended deep in time — consciousness is all of that history rolled up in us.Their words
Yeah. I think if you’re thinking about this thinking about living things as these giant causal structures or these objects that are deep in time or whatever language we end up using to describe it seems to me that consciousness is about the fact that we have a conscious experience is because we are these temporally extended objects. Consciousness and the abstraction that we have in our minds is actually a manifestation of all the time that’s rolled up in us.
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GUIs have superior usability because they show people what can be done rather than requiring them to articulate what they want.
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