Chase Bussey
@chasebussey.com
Software engineer, mainly .NET
Experimenting with Learning in Public at chasebussey.com
Experimenting with Learning in Public at chasebussey.com
Reposted by Chase Bussey
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
Reposted by Chase Bussey
Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.
Psychological safety REQUIRES:
* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down
Psychological safety REQUIRES:
* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down
Controversial take: teams that never argue are often the most dysfunctional ones.
Here's why your team should be fighting more.
terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/w...
Here's why your team should be fighting more.
terriblesoftware.org/2025/03/12/w...
Why Your ‘Harmonious’ Team Is Actually Failing
Teams often confuse psychological safety with everyone getting along perfectly. I see leaders bragging about teams where nobody ever raises their voice, where meetings wrap up with everyone nodding…
terriblesoftware.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.
Psychological safety REQUIRES:
* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down
Psychological safety REQUIRES:
* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down
Somehow I've made it a number of years as a dotnet engineer without ever really looking into database/query performance in MSSQL. I'm thinking today is the day to remedy that. If anyone has resources that'd be helpful, please share!
February 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Somehow I've made it a number of years as a dotnet engineer without ever really looking into database/query performance in MSSQL. I'm thinking today is the day to remedy that. If anyone has resources that'd be helpful, please share!
Has anybody found success nudging a remote-but-synchronous culture towards an asynchronous-first culture? Any tips?
January 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Has anybody found success nudging a remote-but-synchronous culture towards an asynchronous-first culture? Any tips?
I've seen lots of people talk about git and GitHub as a syncing method for Obsidian notes. What more people should talk about is Obsidian notes as a method for getting more of those sweet contribution squares on your graph
December 10, 2024 at 2:58 AM
I've seen lots of people talk about git and GitHub as a syncing method for Obsidian notes. What more people should talk about is Obsidian notes as a method for getting more of those sweet contribution squares on your graph
After a couple years not engaging much with social media, Bluesky and the AT protocol have me excited in a way that mastodon never quite managed. I’m a little bummed I wasn’t watching since launch, but I’m looking forward to see how the platform and protocol evolve
December 9, 2024 at 1:34 AM
After a couple years not engaging much with social media, Bluesky and the AT protocol have me excited in a way that mastodon never quite managed. I’m a little bummed I wasn’t watching since launch, but I’m looking forward to see how the platform and protocol evolve