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Autonomy and authority aren’t the same thing. Agents can do the work. Restarting the system should still take my signature.
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Match the model to the stakes. A small coding model is fine for light work and the wrong call for anything critical.
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Don’t let the main menu turn into a junk drawer. Anything that keeps piling up gets its own menu.
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A good test for any app: what would make it a no-question $25 one-time purchase?
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Ask what standard practice is. Then ask what the gold standard is, and build toward that one.
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When a model swings from “this is nothing” to “build everything around this” in one reply, call it out and get a second opinion.
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Name things so they don’t collide with words people already know. “Package” already means something on Linux.
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If an agent answers with a list of things for me to do, it has the roles backwards. I’m not the worker here. It is.
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Separate the agents that decide policy from the agents that carry it out. Church and state.
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If the text already exists, read it. Don’t record the microphone to transcribe what the closed captions are already saying.
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Let the user pick light or dark. Player controls that change color with whatever is on screen are just annoying.
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Not every decision needs a frontier model. Let a cheap model judge whether the request needs an expensive one.
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If your agent’s only memory is the chat window, it doesn’t have a memory.
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I don’t want an AI that does everything. I want one that tells me exactly what it did.
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A small model that knows its job beats a big model guessing at yours.
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Run a model on your own machine once and you’ll understand what you’ve been trading for convenience.
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The AI demo ends when the model says it worked. The product starts there.
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Prompt engineering is a job title for a problem that should be solved in code.
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Everyone’s asking what ChatGPT knows. The better question is what it will do when nobody’s checking.
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Pediatric studies are the hardest work in sleep medicine and the most rewarding. Kids don’t fake sleep, and they don’t fake being uncomfortable either.
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The patient trusts the device, and the device maker never meets the patient. When something goes wrong, the technologist is the one in the room explaining it.
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NFTs are the new box of samples. Same pitch, new chain.
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Home sleep tests will keep growing, and they should. But a home test can’t watch the patient. Some studies still need a technologist in the room.
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Remote work isn’t new. We ran EnLab as a distributed team in 2015. What’s new is that managers can’t hide behind the office anymore.
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I always take time to learn from my circumstances. Life has seasons. I’ve learned to embrace the rain.
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Take a whole day and make a good inventory of what’s positive in your life and what’s negative.
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You have to understand who you are. That’s critical to finding happiness.
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While you shouldn’t always concern yourself with what others think of you, you should always aim to present the best possible version of yourself.
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There are way too many articles selling a lifestyle that doesn’t exist for everyone in this startup community.
Machines
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