Cal Irvine

Health and safety review: This should be good enough, right?

Hmm so maybe I’m not going on vacation this week after all.

Never not funny.

Sometimes the AI is more lazy than I am.

A couple of months back I turned off all AI autocomplete features in my IDE, and TBH I feel like my brain has completely healed. I still leverage AI heavily, but always as a conscious choice. Goodbye “LLM pause” when my brain was waiting to see what the AI thought before thinking on its own.

-7C on the way up feels the same as 10C on the way down.

I feel like git push —force should work even during a GitHub outage.

My current AI take (constantly evolving) 1) if you fundamentally understand the problem to be solved and the green path, AI is pure accelerant 2) if you need to stray from the green path then it’s actually not that helpful at all 3) if you don’t know what you’re doing it’s doing more harm than good.

I love when I try to write a tricky TS type and I’m having trouble so I ask AI and it tries the same 8 things then says “maybe it’s impossible? IDK 🤷🏻‍♂️”

Hooray for winter sports 😂

Put their names on a plaque.

I’ve already shoveled this twice today. Snow day confirmed for tomorrow.

Lmao it converted my db from PG to MySQL when I wasn’t looking?

K, this Ralph thing is actually really good. Still not a silver bullet, but with a good focused plan it’s really surprisingly effective.

Go to bed, or try out this Ralph thing then go to bed?

Holy shit I actually finished it. I’ve been working on this for at least three years. It better fit.

OAuth in a phone call was not something I ever thought I would have to figure out, but here we are. Been a hell of a year so far.

The thing that’s never made sense to me is that the “we must own guns to protect ourselves from tyranny” people and the “it’s ok when law enforcement murders people” people are the same people.

Turns out the only thing I had to do to fix my printer that’s been broken more than a year is actually try for more than ten minutes.

Finally finished this sweater (for my 3yo daughter). Body and one sleeve took me 3 weeks, sleeve two took my 3 months. Finishing things is always harder than starting 💀

Bread only exists for four hours, then it turns into raw toast.

So someone asked me to make a change on a PR. It’s a good shout, and I’m going to do it. HOWEVER I copied the code in question from him. Should I also fix his usage in the same PR, or is that too passive aggressive? 💀

I thought it would be funny to try to score a smiley face into this loaf. In fact, it was a horrible and terrifying.

Using AI to help me think of a library name for an idea I’m playing with, and look who pops up in one of its ideas. @omgsean.com 25.8% CoffeeScript 🙈

“When you reach the end of your life, you will die. And you won’t be able to wear your glasses. And it will be in 99 hours” - my 3yo Wednesday’s going to be a big day for me.