No, but distant cousins with that Smoot. Oliver Smoot was chairman of ANSI…quite the damily!

And most importantly, I can avoid burdening my coworkers or myself with executing on all of that (mostly throw-away) work.

From that standpoint, I'm convinced that Claude Code is significantly more valuable than what they're charging, even if it can't write production-quality code. /rant 9/9

But I can start half a dozen experiments in an afternoon or evening, see the results after I put the kids to bed, and have useful feedback/insight for my actual engineers (or myself) by the next morning, without sacrificing time for sleep or hobbies. 8/n

Claude Code lets me take a few minutes to write up a specification for an experiment I want to see, when I have the idea, and come back later to see the result. Sure, its work sucks a lot of the time. It's not going to replace me as a Haskell engineer any time soon. 7/n

From 8-4, I have *real* work to, whether it's tackling some difficult engineering problem or collaborating with customers. After 4, I have kids to be present for as a parent. That pretty much leaves the early morning or late at night, and I'm ngl I'm a lot more tired than I was 20 years ago. 6/n

AI skeptics, especially those who are mid-level engineers, wonder why a manager can't do it on their own time. Sure, sometimes there's a skill gap, but I've always worked for highly technical managers. More importantly there's a time gap. I don't have the time I did back when I was 25. 5/n

AI enabled you, as a manager, to freely experiment with new ideas and bring them into focus before assigning work to your engineers or trying to get buy in from your bosses or customers. I think being able to freely experiment with any crazy idea is empowering. 4/n

Next, what do I mean by throw-away work? I think as engineers we've all been in situations where we've put a lot of effort into something that never sees the light of day for various reasons. Managers should be keenly aware of the morale cost in assigning work that won't matter. 3/n

What do I mean by micromanage? I mean things like when you say, "but what if you tried moving this widget over there." Micromanagement manifests in lack of consistency about requirements or frequently changing your mind. AI lets a manager embrace their worst impulses w/o burdening their reports. 2/n

I would pay for this service in a heartbeat, but then how would I ever hear about it? Just thinking about building distribution channels on today’s internet makes me depressed.

Stateful agents for factory automation have existed for decades. I worked on sensor-driven ML to enhance agents in factories from 2009-2014 and it worked back then, no LLMs required. Intelligence isn’t the issue and never was. Getting access to the sensor data is problems 1-100 in existing factories

I will never not put uncoated stainless steel pans in the dishwasher. That’s why I have them!

Is the obvious move Ne6? That was my knee-jerk reaction to the board.

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

Nice!

I’m out of practice but my knee-jerk reaction as black would be h6. I’m curious what the game log looked like.