Challenges in an AI First world
There is an AI race going on. No one knows where or what the finish line is, but it’s a race nevertheless. Run or be left out. So everyone is running. Developers, designers. product managers, companies, countries. To be clear, there was always a race. A race to get products out first, to get features in time etc. But there were guardrails. There were rules. Now, they seem to be absent/de-prioritized. “Move fast and break things” - then fix them even faster with AI !
I put my stamp album online
When I was a child, I was gifted a stamp album for my 10th birthday. I had almost forgotten about it until recently. Back in those days folks were actually writing letters to each other. One of those things that has just about died now. Also my aunt was working in some kind of diplomatic service so she would get stamps from many countries I had never heard of. Thus started my hobby !
Learning Rust
I’ve always been curious about the Rust Programming Language. It’s got some very attractive properties like memory safety, no GC pauses and is blazingly fast. Here are some great resources for learning Rust: The Rust Book Rust By Example Rustlings I’ll document my journey on github In the age of LLMs and coding assistants, one may question the utility of this. But I think building familiarity and expertise in something new is absolutely essential, so you can understand better …