I am a startup founder and software engineer in SF, focusing on AI.
Recently, the Jacobian Conjecture was disproven by a counterexample discovered by an LLM. Shortly thereafter, a ChatGPT session from mathematician Terence Tao made the rounds online. In his chat, Tao uses ChatGPT to help him wrap his head around the implications of the result. If you use LLMs in your
Maybe you started with a modest CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, which you meaningfully crafted over time. Then you adding some core docs (which was best practice anyway), like ARCHITECTURE.md. Before you knew it, you were writing massive specs and generating full-blown features. A lot of those specs shared
Vibe coding is too much work. I don't want to orchestrate a barnyard of agents to generate, refactor, validate, test, and document code I don't see, all while burning through a coal mine of tokens. I don't want to "live dangerously" or
"The name is the thing, and the true name is the true thing. To speak the name is to control the thing." —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Rule of Names As software engineers, we refer to LLMs broadly as "tools". We think and talk about them