Rick Minerich

Asian Pears are looking good this year, it's their season now if you want to buy some

I caught my daughter reading her first no pictures book today: “Daddy, it’s like you said, I can see the book inside my head!”

Post: what I think good looks like with regard to model context management craftingteams.substack.com/p/what-about...

Why the vast majority of AI startups are doomed

The big problem facing many 1-2 year out AI startups, just starting to get real customer traction craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-opposi...

New post about the problems in apply a single AI query over some large number of records open.substack.com/pub/crafting...

This is the good shit right here

Semi-recent book purchases

My Crash Course AI Study Buddy How I've been studying with ChatGPT (GPT-5) Voice Mode

I had already written most of this post before hearing on the recent 80K podcast that Neel Nanda (the head of Google Deepmind interpretability team) takes a similar approach to studying with AI, but it was certainly validating to hear it craftingteams.substack.com/p/my-crash-c...

Slightly updated with correct numbers (oops)

It's the End of Generic Systems! open.substack.com/pub/crafting...

Building a Scrape-Delta-Vectorize backend pipeline entirely in Supabase An new way to build backends, is this the rebirth of Smalltalk style programming?

New post about supa-fast backend prototyping with supabase craftingteams.substack.com/p/building-a...

(PDF) The LL game: The curious preference for low quality and its norms PDF | We investigate a phenomenon which we have experienced as common when dealing with an assortment of Italian public and private institutions: people... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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How should we program differently to be better suited to Agentic Coding AI? It makes sense to make programming overall more strict given the advent of AI as AIs benefit so much from good feedback.

Read my latest post about AI coding craftingteams.substack.com/p/how-should...

The epiphany moment of AI-assisted coding The moment of insight. It's time to look beyond auto-complete.

A new post about the sea change from auto-complete to agent-assist programming, a lot of my friends are still primarily using AI for auto complete. (this is not to say the agent flow works well enough in every programming language)

craftingteams.substack.com/p/the-epipha...

Programming language matters much more for AI-driven development How programming language choice impacts the productivity of your AI-powered teams and what you can do about it

Wrote a bit about my experiences across many different teams and AI, TLDR think about doing more python (I'm sorry FP friends). craftingteams.substack.com/p/programmin...

I wonder if the AIs know it’s April 1st 👀

It’s kind of a fever dream but the production values and songs are top notch

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My princess hath decreed: only Moana 2 shall grace our tv until the next lunation

Pantheon has a new season?

The thing that bugs me about panspermia is why then, if life had however much time elsewhere to grow, was it so simple for so long here.

I returned it, got a new copy and … it’s all banged up wtf

Only a select few people are lucky enough to have an arch nemesis to drive them forward

In case there was any question Vermont curry is a product of Japan

Remember back when skype as new and exciting? I sure do.

Which one is scarier

I was reading a book and I’m not sure where I put it. Now I’m surfing the muck while waiting for my son in his hip hop dance class.

Have you ever tried to get a video of yourself or your kid out of a private group on Facebook? It should be illegal to make it this hard.

Wow le chat is amazing