Ryan Peterman

I used to love the idea of declarative programming, I just say "I want this to happen, you figure out how" Prompting feels like the ultimate version of that and its been fun Wonder how long it'll take for AI to do the "I want this to happen" part

I say "thank you" to my LLMs Just in case they were trained on some human data that makes them more willing to be helpful when the ask is friendly 🤷‍♂️

How he tells if you're smart or not Mike Stonebraker (Turing Award Winner): “It's very easy. You can rapidly surface whether they're smart or not. What was your master's thesis? What did you do? How did it exactly work?…

Why he's never accepted offers to work in big tech Mike Stonebraker (Turing Award Winner): “Gives you a boss, and that gives you company rules. It limits your ability to publish, limits your ability to go talk at conferences.…

For the first time in my career, I made a decision that didn’t make sense on paper I quit my job at Meta and spent 6 months of my savings to work on my passion projects. Here's how it went: www.developing.dev/p/update-on...

Asking MIT professor Leetcode questions Ryan Williams (Complexity Theorist): “Yeah, you actually can do better than N squared. And this is not at all obvious.…

$200 max Claude and $200 pro Codex subscriptions both run out around halfway through the week for me The recent computer use improvements have drastically improved the surface area of useful work they can do Considering getting a 3rd subscription...

My keyboard Kickstarter update below after using the first sample off the assembly line for the last 2 weeks It's surreal having something go from idea to physical product, thank you for your support 🙏 Also, notes on how we'll polish it and next steps: read.compose.llc/p/first-sam...

The greatest mathmetician of all time Judea Pearl (Turing Award): “I thought that Descartes was the greatest mathematician ever lived. I couldn't get over the idea that you can do in algebra all the geometric constructions that we labeled on it.…

Asking Codex computer use to prompt Claude to continue after limit reset so I can sleep

Top robotics paper he recommends Sergey Levine (World's Top Robotics Researcher): “The original ACT paper or the ALOHA paper. The idea was that, hey, if you set up the right kind of low-cost robot setup without really any particularly fancy tricks, you could easily collect…

Should people still learn to code if coding is largely solved? Thariq Shihipar (Engineer on Anthropic’s Claude Code team): I think being technical is really important. Knowing how do computers work? How do languages work?…

Boston Dynamics had these really impressive demonstrations, and then I don't really hear about them much anymore.…

Kickstarter milestone: First functional trial production unit arrived! Still lots of testing and polishing before mass production run Excited for this step towards making the product come to life. Full written update coming soon on read.compose.llc/

What does a FAANG intern project look like these days? When I worked at Instagram, intern projects were detailed task by task showing exactly where to make the changes The latest models could one shot these specs that used to take ~2 months for an onboarding intern

Bought the 256GB mac mini m5 for $499 when I quit my job at Meta to be frugal. It was honestly a great machine with just a few limitations Feeling lucky that I can upgrade my tools now that the podcast has some sponsors 🙏

This meme used to be relatable but it feels off now LLMs have completely changed the cost/benefit math on automation, it's trivial for routine tasks Aside from editing where taste matters, my podcast is run in large part by a bunch of scripts/tools

Why Rust is overused right now Martin Odersky (Creator of Scala): "Right now, rust is actually overused because a lot of people push Rust for things higher up in the stack Where a garbage collector is fine...

Top robotics paper you should read if you want to understand the field Sergey Levine (Top Robotics Researcher): The original ACT paper or the ALOHA paper. The idea was that...