Thoughts on engineering, building products, and the occasional marathon training update.
Everyone's collecting prompts like Pokémon cards. But the people who actually get good at AI? They understand the fundamentals first. Stop cargo-culting prompts and start building real skills.
Last week I watched a team spend three days implementing a "flexible plugin architecture" for a feature that ended up being two if-statements. This is the story of every system I've ever inherited. The urge to build complexity is a bridge, not the destination. Don't build for the moon when you just need to cross the street.