Matt Rickard
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Samples from the archive...

On programming

  • Reflections on 10,000 Hours of Programming / 10,000 hours of DevOps
  • Non-Obvious Docker Uses
  • Don't Use Kubernetes, Yet

On strategy

  • AWS is Not a Dumb Pipe
  • Knuth and McIlroy Approach a Problem
  • Diseconomies of Scale at Google

On AI

  • Prompt Engineering Shouldn't Exist
  • A New ML Stack
  • Context-free Grammar Parsing with LLMs

On Ideas

  • Screenshots as the Universal API
  • I Miss the Programmable Web
  • Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept