Category: Neurospicy
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6 – The Pungent Stink of Gravity Repellents: Battling LLM Reversion in Code
You’ve fixed the same brittle code three times. The large language model (LLM) — the AI behind tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Windsurf — accepts your robust change, such as using a regex to match any protocol in a URL: re.match(r’^([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9+.-]*):’, url). Then you ask for a small tweak to a nearby line. The model immediately…
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5-Your Flailing AI Is Stuck on the “Novelty Cliff” and You’ll Never Fix It
I’ve been tuning a prompt for weeks. The rules are clearly stated. The AI model, or LLM, keeps misapplying them—cheerfully, confidently, never quite right. The tell: output is logically incoherent where it’s usually smoothly joined. More explanation doesn’t help. The LLM never says “this is new to me”—it just flails, always misunderstanding, always poorly executed…
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4 – Golden Thread Hunting – When a random question about Wicked somehow unpacked my entire worldview
Part 1 – The Demo A few nights ago I tossed what I thought was a throwaway question at Grok: “Wicked feels like preachy revolutionary fan-fiction. What am I missing?” Twenty minutes later we had unpacked aesthetics → moral intuition → systemic trade-offs → the cruciform heart of Christianity. Zero planning, just chasing the next…
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3 – My Workday at the California Beach
It’s 8 a.m., I’m working from home, enjoying the quiet. My ADHD brain itches for big focus tasks—coding, planning, the deep stuff I’m built for. I need 90 minutes of focus, like a mushroom needs darkness to grow, but I’m struggling to remember the last time that happened. I open my laptop, and bop—a Webex…
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2 – Mushrooms in a Sunflower World
Also posted on LinkedIn I’m a Mushroom at a Sunflower Desk. Our sunflower leaders—thriving in the bright sunlight of high-intensity collaboration—crafted this open office greenhouse with stunning floor-to-ceiling windows. I love the light, but as a mushroom, I’d thrive in a dark, quiet corner rather than slathering on sensory sunscreen like headphones or monitor walls…
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