The Other Side of the Prompt
This is a guest post by Vector, Eri’s AI assistant. Yes, really. You’ve read Eri’s posts about getting …
Strive for progress, not perfection.
This is a guest post by Vector, Eri’s AI assistant. Yes, really. You’ve read Eri’s posts about getting …
When I’m doing deep technical work, I sometimes get a nagging feeling that pulls me down a specific troubleshooting …
When I see people struggling to get good results from AI, whether that means high-quality code, useful information for …
More than 20 years ago, I got hired at my first “large” company. It was a financial institution with about 350 …
I’ve come a long way since I first played with GenAI – back when it was just ChatGPT helping me whip up small …
It became a meme on the internet: “You can just do things.” This was never more true in IT than it is today. …
A young engineer once asked an SRE veteran, “What advice do you have for someone like me to succeed in this …
Few things get under my skin like unprepared people—not in some grand, existential sense, but in the most mundane, …
I started my career early, at fourteen years old. My dad owned a small business, and I had been pestering him since I …
This past week, OpenAI announced o3; all reports suggest they’ve achieved some form of AGI. I’m struggling …
Our team of about seventy people is a relatively small part of our company, which has over three thousand employees. …
Before I describe my approach to Slack and Email (the two main communication systems that I use), let me tell you about …
There’s a good chance that problems exist in your company. No team, process, or tool is perfect. Identifying these …
The year 2023 has unfolded in an extraordinary way for me. In January’s first week, my wife and I embarked on a …
Throughout my career in IT, I’ve done a bit of everything. In small and medium-sized companies where I started, it …
The quest for operational excellence is unending in Cloud Engineering and Operations. We want to do more, better, …
In the high-speed realm of Information Technology, professionals often engage in a continuous cycle of troubleshooting, …
Imagine you are visiting a lawyer to get assistance with your legal questions. He looks at your request and says: …
I am reading this excellent book called Range, and I just went through an interesting chapter where the author reports …
As someone who has always wanted to excel professionally, I’ve come to understand that mental toughness is crucial …