AI for Senior Software Engineers

For me it was the EM dashes in the copy.

I just came back here to say that.

Every time I see a title like this, I ask myself if I'm not being open enough, if my biases are interfering with any potential progress I could be making when it comes to utilising AI. Then I find out that the content is just more slop and it further solidifies my position on all of this. What a waste of energy. It really saddens me.

Reminds me of the unfortunate book "Vibe Coding" by Steve Yegge, whom I otherwise enjoy. While it contained okay, if very light on actionable details, overview of the broad ideas behind LLM-assisted coding (how much of it was vibe coding, though?), much of it was co-written through the use of an LLM book editing pipeline, proudly advertised throughout the book. A treatise of otherwise one-tenth of the final length has been blown up into the size of a volume, not unlike a piece of meat is pumped with water to make it appear fattier.

I am not sure, why invented? Because of a AI enhanced profile picture? If it is AI slop, just flag it. But if it is AI assisted content and the creator is a real person wanting to build up reputation ... then I guess fine by me, if the content is fine. Is it?

(does not look like that to me)

I am a real person. Not invented and not a scam, but enhanced for sure :) . I use the tools I have.

I have been in tech for 25+ years and love programming but I have been busy running my company the past few years and too busy to write code and I MISSED IT A LOT, when AI-assisted coding came about, it drastically reduced the friction.

Vibe coding + Years of Experience = Vibe Engineering and it is AMAZING.

I feel like Tony Stark every day. I wake up every day and review code from several agents on several projects and sometimes i start a new agent when i am bed because of a thought/idea I had and when i wake up in the morning the feature i wanted is ready for review and can be live live in under 30 minutes. that is incredible.

PS: I am the author and owner of that site.

And just to add some more contest, my site used to be a wordpress blog back 15 years ago and I used to block semi-frequently but couldn't keep up with it. The domain has been parked for 10+ years now and i have been wanting to revive it forever but again, too much time than I had to spare. AI tooling has inspired me again and reduced the time significantly. I can now generate content much faster and review it for coherence and accuracy etc...

Lately i have been recording voice memos in the car and when i get home i take the transcript and ask AI to turn it into a blog post. In the past, it just sat on my phone because the effort to edit and research it and format it and type it was too time consuming.

The point is, there is a real person behind this, effort and thought went into it and now i can share my thought without worrying about formatting and grammer and css and blah blah.

> A comprehensive, technical guide to understanding Artificial Intelligence from first principles. Built for experienced engineers who want to deeply understand how AI actually works.

You are overselling this. Being able to read this site and nod along saying "I know this" says enables you to talk to your data scientist or AI engineer.

However, if you don't already know what the jargon means you aren't going to learn it from the site. The prerequisites don't mention probability, but probability isn't introduced anywhere. The sketch about attention in transformers is missing at least one very crucial ingredient. etc.