"skill issue" is my favourite phrase
Troubleshooting: The Skill That Never Goes Obsolete
Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting. I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it. Troubleshooting is often learned tacitly, in the process of explicitly learning “the skill”. Troubleshooting is rarely discussed
Launching the Tacit Knowledge Podcast: How the world's hardest problems really get solved
By Kumar Garg
Sung Kim (@sungkim.bsky.social)
I like this quote on code review: "The idea that humans will reliably look through code to find the increasingly rare issues that automated tools miss seems like a fantasy." By Marc Brooker, AWS.
Yetch Studio | Unique Solutions to Everyday Problems
Unique solutions to every day problems, straight from Simone Giertz's brain.
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the easy fix
On the balance between perfect solutions and pragmatic fixes in software engineering
AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.
Bridges & scruples
For your own sanity, you have to remember that not all problems can be solved. Not all problems can be solved, but all problems can be illuminated. —Ursula Franklin
The Friction I Don't Want to Lose
I love learning. And while the friction of solving new problems is increasingly traded for speed, the experience gained by overcoming that friction is as important as ever.
Issue 015, The June Edition. | Offprint
Get some accountability friends for your side projects, manage your typefaces, and listen to some non-AI generated jazz.
Repair Culture: Learning to Fix Instead of Replace – Wayfinders Now – Living small to gain abundance.
Repair culture is the growing mindset of choosing to fix what’s broken instead of immediately replacing it. It challenges a habit that has become almost automatic in modern life: when something stops working, we discard it. A new phone, a new appliance, a new chair, a new everything. Repair culture asks a quieter question: What […]
The Paradox of Perfection: When ‘Good Enough’ is Actually Better
Exploring the tension between engineering perfectionism and pragmatic delivery. Discover why striving for the perfect solution often prevents us from shipping valuable improvements and how to find the balance.
FLF’s Epistemic Case Study Competition: Results — LessWrong
This summer, FLF ran a contest which asked entrants to help us “find the best workflows and methodologies for using AI to produce reliable, trustwort…
One thing that Tara touches upon but that I want to spend more time on is that the master's tools that are problematic are the *epistemic* ones. Tech has unexamined epistemic assumptions inside of which there is no liberation.
Blake E. Reid
This is an essential read, and the closing on credentialing versus engagement and "centering the people for whom the stakes are highest" in particular. (H/T @peachfleurr.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com)
Another valuable AI tool to address the massive de-skilling event we are currently experiencing! By @lav.io
Sam Lavigne
I made a chrome extension that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly... slowllm.lav.io
