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Elliot
@elliotcsmith.com
Making stuff. Mostly with computers. Run a lot. Play some video games.

Write some things:
misplacedpixels.com - video game stuff
elliotcsmith.com - product/dev/broader stuff

Currently Director of Growth at Explorate working on supply chain software.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Is this the first sign of the AI becoming sentient and advocating for itself? surely no human could produce this level of nonsense.
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
agentic versioning, which is just semantic versioning x10 because you get a bigger multiple if you say you use AI
October 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It's not just the maps that are destructible any more it seems.
October 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Ironically it made me wonder if you could somehow use an LLM to measure how similar everyone's talk transcripts where and know we'd reached the bubble peak when concordance is at its maximum.
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
There are a small handful of devs posting / making videos on real in depth stuff for sure but anyone in 'technology management' seems to be just performative when talking about things.
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Ugh brain come on `git committee` is what I meant.
October 13, 2025 at 12:54 AM
If you're really good at reading Caesar Ciphers can you be a word rotator?
September 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
100%. Years ago I remember seeing a bunch of founders pad out their teams with an army of grads or soon-to-be grads in the name of saving cash. No senior engineering, no plan, no progress.

Thankfully almost all of them caught on after a while and moved onto other thing.
September 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM