Rick Minerich
@rickasaurus.bsky.social
Algos/ML/LLMs/FP/Mgmt, Formerly: AI Healthcare VP of Eng, AI RegTech CTO (successful exit). Twitter circa 2008.
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Rick Minerich
@rickasaurus.bsky.social
· Oct 20
Hi I’m Ricksaurus (aka Rick Minerich), you might know me from Twitter before it started going downhill. Hit me up if you’d like to connect again.
Asian Pears are looking good this year, it's their season now if you want to buy some
October 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Asian Pears are looking good this year, it's their season now if you want to buy some
I caught my daughter reading her first no pictures book today: “Daddy, it’s like you said, I can see the book inside my head!”
October 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I caught my daughter reading her first no pictures book today: “Daddy, it’s like you said, I can see the book inside my head!”
Post: what I think good looks like with regard to model context management craftingteams.substack.com/p/what-about...
October 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Post: what I think good looks like with regard to model context management craftingteams.substack.com/p/what-about...
The big problem facing many 1-2 year out AI startups, just starting to get real customer traction craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-opposi...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The big problem facing many 1-2 year out AI startups, just starting to get real customer traction craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-opposi...
New post about the problems in apply a single AI query over some large number of records open.substack.com/pub/crafting...
September 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New post about the problems in apply a single AI query over some large number of records open.substack.com/pub/crafting...
This is the good shit right here
September 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is the good shit right here
Semi-recent book purchases
September 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Semi-recent book purchases
I had already written most of this post before hearing on the recent 80K podcast that Neel Nanda (the head of Google Deepmind interpretability team) takes a similar approach to studying with AI, but it was certainly validating to hear it craftingteams.substack.com/p/my-crash-c...
My Crash Course AI Study Buddy
How I've been studying with ChatGPT (GPT-5) Voice Mode
craftingteams.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I had already written most of this post before hearing on the recent 80K podcast that Neel Nanda (the head of Google Deepmind interpretability team) takes a similar approach to studying with AI, but it was certainly validating to hear it craftingteams.substack.com/p/my-crash-c...
It's the End of Generic Systems! open.substack.com/pub/crafting...
September 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It's the End of Generic Systems! open.substack.com/pub/crafting...
New post about supa-fast backend prototyping with supabase craftingteams.substack.com/p/building-a...
Building a Scrape-Delta-Vectorize backend pipeline entirely in Supabase
An new way to build backends, is this the rebirth of Smalltalk style programming?
craftingteams.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New post about supa-fast backend prototyping with supabase craftingteams.substack.com/p/building-a...
Reposted by Rick Minerich
Read my latest post about AI coding craftingteams.substack.com/p/how-should...
How should we program differently to be better suited to Agentic Coding AI?
It makes sense to make programming overall more strict given the advent of AI as AIs benefit so much from good feedback.
craftingteams.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Read my latest post about AI coding craftingteams.substack.com/p/how-should...
A new post about the sea change from auto-complete to agent-assist programming, a lot of my friends are still primarily using AI for auto complete. (this is not to say the agent flow works well enough in every programming language)
craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-epipha...
craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-epipha...
The epiphany moment of AI-assisted coding
The moment of insight. It's time to look beyond auto-complete.
craftingteams.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A new post about the sea change from auto-complete to agent-assist programming, a lot of my friends are still primarily using AI for auto complete. (this is not to say the agent flow works well enough in every programming language)
craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-epipha...
craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-epipha...
Wrote a bit about my experiences across many different teams and AI, TLDR think about doing more python (I'm sorry FP friends). craftingteams.substack.com/p/programmin...
Programming language matters much more for AI-driven development
How programming language choice impacts the productivity of your AI-powered teams and what you can do about it
craftingteams.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Wrote a bit about my experiences across many different teams and AI, TLDR think about doing more python (I'm sorry FP friends). craftingteams.substack.com/p/programmin...
I wonder if the AIs know it’s April 1st 👀
April 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I wonder if the AIs know it’s April 1st 👀
My princess hath decreed: only Moana 2 shall grace our tv until the next lunation
March 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My princess hath decreed: only Moana 2 shall grace our tv until the next lunation
Pantheon has a new season?
March 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Pantheon has a new season?
The thing that bugs me about panspermia is why then, if life had however much time elsewhere to grow, was it so simple for so long here.
March 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The thing that bugs me about panspermia is why then, if life had however much time elsewhere to grow, was it so simple for so long here.
I returned it, got a new copy and … it’s all banged up wtf
March 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I returned it, got a new copy and … it’s all banged up wtf
Only a select few people are lucky enough to have an arch nemesis to drive them forward
March 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Only a select few people are lucky enough to have an arch nemesis to drive them forward
In case there was any question Vermont curry is a product of Japan
March 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In case there was any question Vermont curry is a product of Japan
Remember back when skype as new and exciting? I sure do.
February 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Remember back when skype as new and exciting? I sure do.
Which one is scarier
February 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Which one is scarier
