I collected some more musings here. eekim.com/2025/10/look...

On a related note, I'm also intrigued by the potential for AI to replace traditional strategy consultants, as @jamescham.bsky.social has been talking about for as long as I can remember (even before GPT-3).

My guess is that an experienced engineer could have produced this simple, non-production quality app in about the same amount of time (an hour), but it would be at least an order of magnitude more expensive. There are clearly tradeoffs, but I wonder when the Bitter Lesson comes into play here.

I haven't played with Context Engineering or vibe coding, so it was interesting to get to watch this. I've been enjoying what @jonudell.bsky.social, @lmorchard.com, Harper Reed, and others have been saying on these topics, though.

I agree! I've just started working through episodes, and I thought @rabble.nz's interview with @yoyoel.com was particularly good.

I also want to shout out Joe Mathew's piece on the Eaton wildfires, which I mention in my addendum. It's raw and rough, but it's the truth we need to be facing right now.

This was my first professional blog post in four years. It was hard to write, but I'm glad it's out there now. I also shared some addendums to the piece in my personal blog.

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Is the second photo some kind of Dudleya?