Will Larson
@lethain.com
Write at lethain.com. Author of An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer, and An Engineering Executive’s Primer. Worked some places.
There's also a sense, for me anyway, that the frontier has moved somewhere else -- I'm not quite sure where -- but a lot of social media today feels like a regurgitation of things that already happened rather than something new/interesting/evolutionary.
October 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
There's also a sense, for me anyway, that the frontier has moved somewhere else -- I'm not quite sure where -- but a lot of social media today feels like a regurgitation of things that already happened rather than something new/interesting/evolutionary.
Yeah, absolutely an era I miss fondly. There was a post from @copyconstruct.bsky.social a week or two ago that captured the reality for me -- most of the folks I want to talk with are gone, and I've personally *mostly* left social media for all significant purposes.
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Yeah, absolutely an era I miss fondly. There was a post from @copyconstruct.bsky.social a week or two ago that captured the reality for me -- most of the folks I want to talk with are gone, and I've personally *mostly* left social media for all significant purposes.
Could point! This probably does exist somehow already
July 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Could point! This probably does exist somehow already
Yeah, so you can imagine another stage in this process of summarizing all rfcs to extract problems, but I’m more specifically looking for a pattern we could scale across many functions, eg compliance feedback, security feedback, etc
July 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Yeah, so you can imagine another stage in this process of summarizing all rfcs to extract problems, but I’m more specifically looking for a pattern we could scale across many functions, eg compliance feedback, security feedback, etc
I think programming languages are already pretty exhaustively represented in the training sets, although it certainly varies language by language, and providing more detailed in-context learning is usually preferable in my experience.
June 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I think programming languages are already pretty exhaustively represented in the training sets, although it certainly varies language by language, and providing more detailed in-context learning is usually preferable in my experience.
Have six (draft, unedited) chapters of my upcoming book exploring this idea in a bit more detail!
craftingengstrategy.com/aic/generate...
craftingengstrategy.com/aic/generate...
AI Companion / Generating Systems Models
Crafting Engineering Strategy has a chapter on systems modeling along with a number of examples. Those examples focus on using the lethain/systems python library to generate models using a Jupyter not...
craftingengstrategy.com
June 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Have six (draft, unedited) chapters of my upcoming book exploring this idea in a bit more detail!
craftingengstrategy.com/aic/generate...
craftingengstrategy.com/aic/generate...
Full piece at lethain.com/competitive-... going into the concept a bit more deeply.
What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs?
Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy,
a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with
large language models at work.
Unsurprisingly, th...
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June 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Full piece at lethain.com/competitive-... going into the concept a bit more deeply.
Part of this project that I'm excited about is also releasing an LLM-optimized version of the book designed to be throw into an Claude/ChatGPT project as in-context learning, which I'm working with O'Reilly to distribute. Not available yet, but you ca see use examples on website!
June 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Part of this project that I'm excited about is also releasing an LLM-optimized version of the book designed to be throw into an Claude/ChatGPT project as in-context learning, which I'm working with O'Reilly to distribute. Not available yet, but you ca see use examples on website!
You can already read the full, unedited version of the book online at craftingengstrategy.com (most of those have also come out on my blog over the past 18 months as I wrote)
Crafting Engineering Strategy
craftingengstrategy.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
You can already read the full, unedited version of the book online at craftingengstrategy.com (most of those have also come out on my blog over the past 18 months as I wrote)
Coordination between company facilities teams and building’s janitor teams on how to clean rooms
May 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Coordination between company facilities teams and building’s janitor teams on how to clean rooms
Hah, I've heard of a few companies that did something similar! I don't think the _intent_ is wrong, but I do think it might be a lot more direct to educate the folks not sharing the space effectively.
May 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hah, I've heard of a few companies that did something similar! I don't think the _intent_ is wrong, but I do think it might be a lot more direct to educate the folks not sharing the space effectively.
I respect you for that, but cannot join you lol
May 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I respect you for that, but cannot join you lol