Shipping at inference speed

Link: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed

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This is a good post to say that we have different ways of using LLMs at this point and nothing is permanent. Every month or weeks, this is changing. Adopting a new workflow is like juggling circus art. Codex is something I haven’t even touched, Claude code too, never. I have used Amp, Gemini CLI, Warp and Cursor the most. I love those, those are cheap or even free, they help me understand what I was about to do wrong. They have never produced anything right 100%. I always needed to understand what was I supposed to do. Is this true “>The important decisions these days are language/ecosystem and dependencies” Maybe but I don’t see that. Its kind of true, but not in a big way. The major things are the flow, the edge cases and the intuition for the problem for it to be ale to understand. This actually surprised me”> Go wasn’t something I gave even the slightest thought even a few months ago, but eventually I played around and found that agents are really great at writing it, and its simple type system makes linting fast.” I want to try it now. I have ton of go projects.

Week #74

It was winding down week, 2025, ending slowly, the biggest irony. The year was full of fast-paced, unprecedented models just dropping here and there. It was hard to keep up with the progress. It was getting overwhelming, no one is used to such a level of information. I was dreading with so much power in our hands. I couldn’t handle it and refrained it and thought it was better to focus on learning new things. I kept using AI tools at work, not by choice, but initially through force but then through necessity.

Mostly Technical: Hearts and Minds

Link: https://youtu.be/P-fKp3eS5CA

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Boy I have some thoughts here. Aaron’s AI Stack > Claude Opus 4.5, Amp Code, Code Rabbit for review Ship code, no one cares how its done Have an idea > research > plan > throw it to AI > look at it, stare at it > ship it What is the perfect abstraction, no, what can I get shipped. I like to code, but I loved implementing ideas, now its easier to code with AI, it knows the patterns and abstractions. You have to eyeball the code slop it generates. AI to check in AI, I was too not sure of, but lately the Seer bot from Sentry is so cool, it picks up grave stuff. You need the human, flavour is the juice. People can produce code, but not software, you have to have a point of view I have more then ever to build, the need of software engineers is going to get more. Maybe, I don’t know. They would need a person who can steer them. Its a great time to study systems, and not specific frameworks. Argh I hate to say that, but I disagree here. We need to know the tools, not specificity but still, humans are nerdy people they can’t live without doing or learning something, even if that is pointless. Learning Systems, true, I agree wholeheartedly to that. Maybe he means in the terms of content creation. People are not going to watch or read such specific guides to tech framework and tools, but broader skills than technical details. But I still think having the knowledge of specific tech or tool will give you the edge over the one slopping and producing slop when the time comes. Human’s shared experience is something I am starting to consume more. Or rather consuming just that. No one likes AI slop, look at hackernews, people are reading experiences of x person using y ai tool to get things done. The point of Aaron on shared experience on Pride and Prejudice written by human, is something people are still consuming and talking about after a decade or more. But what about PaLM? Do you remember the model? Noooo. We need human connection. The idea train from Ian is contagious, I am running it something on my brain to think of something to make in SQL or some code.

Week 73

A pretty slow and sluggish week, but some momentum carried in the end. There was a disappointment after a glimmer of excitement when gemini 3 Flash dropped for the experiments that I was running for extraction of documents. It was maybe just the timing, but after this seeing code execution from chats, it was amazing. A good end to the work week.

I have continued to write Advent of SQL for the past 4 days, and brought back the streak of writing SQLog. I was not able to ship some code over the past weekend. But this weekend, I am pumped. I have time sorted out. Would be shipping some improvements in the website. Oh! I actually added snowball and particles based on season on my website (only index and post pages).

Week #72

A good productive week (I am not sure, I am saying that in the last month of 2025). I would be writing a yearly review in a couple of weeks and this week might lift my spirits up. I was fresh, given time off from work, not really, but given the time to experiment.

I read a lot, fiction, technical, even philosophical, and random Hacker News articles. I read 2 books of Harry Potter. I haven’t read Harry Potter, I have watched the first 3 movies, but not books. I enjoyed it, it was subtly different from movies, I missed the quote “What an Idiot” from the movies, it was not in the book, i was disappointed but the atmospheric adventures was amazing read.

The Gemini API Key Frustration

Link: https://ankursethi.com/blog/gemini-api-key-frustration/

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Yeah! have you set up Google products without opening and closing a bunch of tabs Here you are in 2025. Wait a minute, was PaLM a thing? wasn’t google notes to be shut down? What is happening, what is AI Studio, Vertex AI, Jules, Antigravity, Gemini CLI, Gemini models of course, dug sneaked into various products, geese. Google!

Source: techstructive-weekly-72