TheOverEngineered
@theoverengineered.bsky.social
I just want to code interesting things and yea... Sometimes I'll take the way over engineered path. How else do you learn?
Doing the "AI research" thing, but #golang is my true love. I think there's a world where AI agents provide for all...
Doing the "AI research" thing, but #golang is my true love. I think there's a world where AI agents provide for all...
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One of the most positive things about AI I see is that companies are investing in something other than ads.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
One of the most positive things about AI I see is that companies are investing in something other than ads.
If you need a senior level engineer, you better have 10ish entry level people for them to lead. Otherwise you're hurting their career and screwing your pipeline.
September 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you need a senior level engineer, you better have 10ish entry level people for them to lead. Otherwise you're hurting their career and screwing your pipeline.
I'm going to put my tin foil hat on for a moment and suggest trump had charlie Kirk killed to help start a war and take our attention away from the birthday card.
September 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I'm going to put my tin foil hat on for a moment and suggest trump had charlie Kirk killed to help start a war and take our attention away from the birthday card.
How is it that we're in an AI bubble and AI is stealing some large portion of jobs? Shouldn't it be one or the other?
August 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
How is it that we're in an AI bubble and AI is stealing some large portion of jobs? Shouldn't it be one or the other?
hot take: hitl is a terrible acronym for "human in the loop" for AI agents
August 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
hot take: hitl is a terrible acronym for "human in the loop" for AI agents
Check out opal.withgoogle.com/landing/ pretty stoked to see what people build with it.
Welcome
opal.withgoogle.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Check out opal.withgoogle.com/landing/ pretty stoked to see what people build with it.
One thing is super clear to me... Bringing people who can build AI agents together with people who are domain experts is going to yield some amazing things.
July 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
One thing is super clear to me... Bringing people who can build AI agents together with people who are domain experts is going to yield some amazing things.
I wrote my first AI agent 2 years ago in c#. No framework, just invoking the vertex API directly. It works great and is still used in production helping people create AppSheet apps today.
I think all the frameworks are confusing the conversation.
I think all the frameworks are confusing the conversation.
July 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I wrote my first AI agent 2 years ago in c#. No framework, just invoking the vertex API directly. It works great and is still used in production helping people create AppSheet apps today.
I think all the frameworks are confusing the conversation.
I think all the frameworks are confusing the conversation.
Sometimes I think where AI helps me the most while programming is what before I lean on the Ballmer Peak for. Like, instead of overthinking something or feeling that moment of "meh", the AI pushes me through it...
But the Ballmer Peak is more fun. So now when I'm waiting on the LLM, I take a shot.
But the Ballmer Peak is more fun. So now when I'm waiting on the LLM, I take a shot.
July 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Sometimes I think where AI helps me the most while programming is what before I lean on the Ballmer Peak for. Like, instead of overthinking something or feeling that moment of "meh", the AI pushes me through it...
But the Ballmer Peak is more fun. So now when I'm waiting on the LLM, I take a shot.
But the Ballmer Peak is more fun. So now when I'm waiting on the LLM, I take a shot.
Anytime I read about AI agents on #bluesky I think I'm on LinkedIn... Just a bunch of people promoting their content.
Where's the "The AI just logged in as me and sent incriminating pictures to my wife" type posts?
Where's the "The AI just logged in as me and sent incriminating pictures to my wife" type posts?
July 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Anytime I read about AI agents on #bluesky I think I'm on LinkedIn... Just a bunch of people promoting their content.
Where's the "The AI just logged in as me and sent incriminating pictures to my wife" type posts?
Where's the "The AI just logged in as me and sent incriminating pictures to my wife" type posts?
When I review code, I start by thinking about how I would have written the code. What functions I would have had to touch, what systems are involved, etc.
I do the same when I review AI generated code. This means I understand the destination. If I don't... I don' use AI. I'm not ready.
#software
I do the same when I review AI generated code. This means I understand the destination. If I don't... I don' use AI. I'm not ready.
#software
July 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
When I review code, I start by thinking about how I would have written the code. What functions I would have had to touch, what systems are involved, etc.
I do the same when I review AI generated code. This means I understand the destination. If I don't... I don' use AI. I'm not ready.
#software
I do the same when I review AI generated code. This means I understand the destination. If I don't... I don' use AI. I'm not ready.
#software
AI agents are software
We need software engineers.
We need software engineers.
July 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
AI agents are software
We need software engineers.
We need software engineers.
AI is going to help us apply humanities best patterns in insanely fast ways... But it can do the same with our worst ones too.
July 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
AI is going to help us apply humanities best patterns in insanely fast ways... But it can do the same with our worst ones too.
I'm interested in companies who are trying to build AI agents to help with a specific non technical task.
Anyone working on something interesting?
Anyone working on something interesting?
July 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I'm interested in companies who are trying to build AI agents to help with a specific non technical task.
Anyone working on something interesting?
Anyone working on something interesting?
My son has learned a valuable lesson about phishing scams... He clicked a link from a random person on Roblox and lost his account.
Trying to help him through the process of working with Roblox support to get it back, but getting past the AI slop might be impossible.
Trying to help him through the process of working with Roblox support to get it back, but getting past the AI slop might be impossible.
July 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My son has learned a valuable lesson about phishing scams... He clicked a link from a random person on Roblox and lost his account.
Trying to help him through the process of working with Roblox support to get it back, but getting past the AI slop might be impossible.
Trying to help him through the process of working with Roblox support to get it back, but getting past the AI slop might be impossible.
If your AI agent has access to tools, then I'd assert that it should be using the token from the user invoking it. The user should not be able to manipulate the LLM into anything they couldn't already do.
The fact that this is not obvious is a security nightmare.
The fact that this is not obvious is a security nightmare.
July 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If your AI agent has access to tools, then I'd assert that it should be using the token from the user invoking it. The user should not be able to manipulate the LLM into anything they couldn't already do.
The fact that this is not obvious is a security nightmare.
The fact that this is not obvious is a security nightmare.
I still have a hard time when people suggest computer science is no longer a useful degree. What studies led to deep learning, transformers, etc?
I can tell pairing with AI is going to help people reapply well understood patterns, but I've yet to see anyone demonstrate it yielding new ones.
I can tell pairing with AI is going to help people reapply well understood patterns, but I've yet to see anyone demonstrate it yielding new ones.
July 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I still have a hard time when people suggest computer science is no longer a useful degree. What studies led to deep learning, transformers, etc?
I can tell pairing with AI is going to help people reapply well understood patterns, but I've yet to see anyone demonstrate it yielding new ones.
I can tell pairing with AI is going to help people reapply well understood patterns, but I've yet to see anyone demonstrate it yielding new ones.
So I'm on a new team writing C++. It's been a while... But the built in Gemini tools have made it easy... That being said, occasionally the AI makes such destructive changes and I bump into a bug within the internal IDE's undo feature... And I might as well just reset my workspace...
#software #ai
#software #ai
July 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I tell people they should still learn to write code just like I tell my kids they need to learn long division.
Perhaps #ai and calculators (both just adding machines...) are quicker, but no one is screaming we should stop learning math...
Perhaps #ai and calculators (both just adding machines...) are quicker, but no one is screaming we should stop learning math...
June 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I tell people they should still learn to write code just like I tell my kids they need to learn long division.
Perhaps #ai and calculators (both just adding machines...) are quicker, but no one is screaming we should stop learning math...
Perhaps #ai and calculators (both just adding machines...) are quicker, but no one is screaming we should stop learning math...
It's crazy that while we're invading ourselves with marines, the stock market is up...
More proof of how disconnected the stock market really is from reality.
More proof of how disconnected the stock market really is from reality.
June 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It's crazy that while we're invading ourselves with marines, the stock market is up...
More proof of how disconnected the stock market really is from reality.
More proof of how disconnected the stock market really is from reality.
An interesting question I've been asking myself and people around me is: what can I "vibe" that isn't just coding?
Can we bring this to other parts of our life?
Can we bring this to other parts of our life?
June 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
An interesting question I've been asking myself and people around me is: what can I "vibe" that isn't just coding?
Can we bring this to other parts of our life?
Can we bring this to other parts of our life?
So I'm a little worried that now that MAGA hates Elon, they're going to leave X and come here...
June 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So I'm a little worried that now that MAGA hates Elon, they're going to leave X and come here...