hacks all the way down

LLMs will never be alive or intelligent

And "agents" will never know and cater to our every need

Jan 3 • Thane Thomson

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February 2025

On politics and software

Being political is part of being human, but it's not healthy as a primary fixation.

Feb 5, 2025 • Thane Thomson

January 2025

Software is mostly made of people

Code is just one of many critical ingredients to cultivating value.

Jan 3, 2025 • Thane Thomson

1

December 2024

An imperative programmer tries to learn Haskell

A tale of struggle and resignation.

Dec 18, 2024 • Thane Thomson

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Things I love about Golang

Having written software in a wide variety of programming languages over the past 30 years, I have to say that I’ve really been enjoying using in Go when…

Dec 1, 2024 • Thane Thomson

It's all hacks, all the way down

Imperfect, but good enough.

Dec 1, 2024 • Thane Thomson