AI-Assisted Development for Apple Platforms

Photo from Omiš, Croatia, at ChainSafe Infrastructure program offsite, 2024.

I've been using various LLMs since late 2019, starting with GPT-2 running locally on my laptop. This ramped up when GPT-3 and ChatGPT hit, used for assisted coding on my Python and JS tools. Coding agents really got amazing in …

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Forecasting Completion

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TLDR: You can use my calculator to forecast completion intervals here: Monte Carlo calculator

There are two ways of estimating how long software will take:
1. Have developers and managers think deeply about the problems and apply their best …

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Stuff I've designed and 3D printed

I acquired a 3D printer (Bambu A1 Mini) June 2025. I've been asked about things that I have designed and printed, so here is a mostly complete list.

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Setting and Achieving OKRs

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OKRs have been a part of many companies that I've worked at since they're an effective way to align folks in an organization from top to bottom, empirically and transparently.

Setting OKRs

objective

  • Goal/what we want to change …
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How I Work Cyclically

Photo of SF Ocean Beach, 2022

I want to use my brain for working on big picture and detailed work, not for planning on what to work on. The world operates on cycles: breathing every 3-10 seconds, work/play/sleep every 24 hours, quarterly/annual financials every 3 or 12 …

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