A sharp critique of the emerging “AI Engineer” label — arguing that the real skill is not prompting, but system design, evaluation, and integration. A useful perspective for teams trying to separate hype from actual capability building.
Read more: https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer
Andrej Karpathy Just Built an Entire GPT in 243 Lines of Python
No PyTorch. No TensorFlow. Just pure Python and basic math.
Three Modes of Cognition
Intelligence is not elemental. Neither is artificial intelligence. Both are complex compounds composed of more primitive cognitive elements, some of which we are only now discovering
Read more: https://kk.org/thetechnium/three-modes-of-cognition/
Nobody knows how large software products work
Large, rapidly-moving tech companies are constantly operating in the “fog of war” about their own systems. Simple questions like “can users of type Y access feature X?”, “what happens when you perform action Z in this situation?”, or even “how many different plans do we offer” often can only be answered by a handful of people in the organization. Sometimes there are zero people at the organization who can answer them, and somebody has to be tasked with digging in like a researcher to figure it out.
Read more: https://www.seangoedecke.com/nobody-knows-how-software-products-work/
Fun Stuff
https://programmerhumor.io/windows-memes/all-this-to-hit-texture-loading-and-crash-out-sdmt
