A quick music production retrospective — Recently I’ve been pulling together a big spreadsheet of every single original track or remix I’ve ever produced and finished. Kind of an audit of sorts, mostly to make sure I have every master file archived and no project gets forgotten. It’s been an enlightening effort…

…a raging dumpster fire deserving total annihilation — The recent move by OpenSea to drop support for creator royalties is merely the latest indicator that the so-called NFT ecosystem has devolved into nothing more than a cesspool of speculative gambling and greed. It’s also the last straw for me personally. As both a creator myself and the CEO…

Doing my best to make Larry Wall proud everyday — Programming, the kind I do every day, involves high-level creativity. Deciding what I want to build is a thrill, like laying down the first beats of a new techno track. But getting into the nitty gritty of figuring out exactly how to build and maintain those ideas? …

Deep expertise and obsessive drive is more essential than ever as the industry welcomes waves of newcomers — My friend Justin Searles recently penned a long, thought-provoking piece titled “The looming demise of the 10x developer.” It’s full of insightful observations about shifts within the programming community. …

Tips and tricks for communicating effectively with your AI team — Olympia’s pre-configured personas mark an exciting new chapter in AI technology. For the first time in history, we can have natural, productive conversations with non-human entities as if they were real people. …

My good friend Kian Pak never imagined he would create a Mac app, let alone one that could spark an evolution in his career. For years, Kian struggled with a bad habit that plagued him day and night — nail biting. He tried everything to kick the habit, but nothing…

I’m excited to announce the open-sourcing of MagmaChat, a new open-source platform for building, hosting, and scaling smart agents that harness the power of Large Language Models (like GPT). MagmaChat development is sponsored by my company MagmaLabs, and is a fully reactive web application implemented using the latest and greatest…

Do not be the fucking moral police of the game, okay? — Our good friend Luis Miguel came over to play Root with me and the kids this week. Now when it comes to gaming I may attend mass on holidays, but Luis is the fucking pope, so I was super excited to show him my GPT experiments.

Spoiler Alert: It absolutely blew our minds — This blog post is brought to you by Olympia, the AI Virtual Assistant service that I founded after realizing the potential of large-language models by playing Dungeons & Dragons with them. My two oldest kids Taylor Anne and Liam, are 26 and 23 (respectively). My youngest son Tenzin is…