It's not your codebase
It's not your codebase Read it on seangoedecke.com Engineers often feel a lot of ownership over the code they write. That’s understandable: it’s partially...
How does ChatGPT work? What is AI, really?
How does ChatGPT work? What is AI, really? Read it on seangoedecke.com How does AI work? Since 2022, it’s been possible to have a conversation with a...
How projects fail at large tech companies
How projects fail at large tech companies Read the original post at seangoedecke.com How do projects fail at large tech companies? As I've said many times,...
In defense of shallow technical knowledge
In defense of shallow technical knowledge Read it on seangoedecke.com Whenever a new piece of technology comes out (these days, mostly AI) I go to some...
Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work
Practical AI techniques for daily engineering work Read it on seangoedecke.com Popular advice about using AI is obsessed with tools and “magic prompts”. To...
Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models
Strengths and limitations of diffusion language models Read it on seangoedecke.com Google recently released Gemini Diffusion, which is impressing everyone...
Practical advice for engineers in these troubled times
Practical advice for engineers in these troubled times Read it on seangoedecke.com Since 2023, the rise of interest rates has caused a sea change in how...
Diffusion models explained simply
Diffusion models explained simply Read it on seangoedecke.com Transformer-based large language models are relatively easy to understand. You break language...
Why strong engineers are rarely blocked
Why strong engineers are rarely blocked Read it on seangoedecke.com Earlier in my career I used to get blocked1 constantly, but these days it’s rare. What...
Patience is the killer LLM feature
Patience is the killer LLM feature Read it on seangoedecke.com Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, famously said that his goal was to make intelligence “too cheap to...
New posts from Sean Goedecke
Thank you for subscribing! Bear with me as I figure out how to send these emails. Here are the blog posts I wrote this week: Why can't language models come...