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there is no lead in jet fuel.

i would expect close to no 100LL burning planes use MEM.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda!)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Travel, sure, but not Relocate

Technologies: Rust, Python, TypeScript, Node.js; ML/data systems (PySpark, EMR, SageMaker, Airflow, CatBoost, MTCNN-derived inference, vector search, embeddings, AI/deepfake detection); LLM-native engineering (Claude Code, Codex, MCP, OpenRouter, Beads); AWS (ECS, Lambda, Aurora/Postgres, DynamoDB, S3), Terraform/CDKTF, Docker, OpenTelemetry; bare-metal colo, Citrix Xen/XCPng.

Résumé/CV: https://www.msxpert.com/cv/

Email: mike@msxpert.com

Howdy! I'm Mike -- Data, ML, and Airplane nerd. Drama-free engineering. Looking for a new place to hang my hat, sling non-slop code, tell and listen to stories with interesting people. Reach out if you think I can help, I'd love a chat! :)

I assume this is why things like PyO3 are popping up? If so, sort of a fascinating way to compartmentalize new rust code into legacy .py code in lieu of a refactor, or at least, a way to do a staggered refactor and eat the elephant in bites :)

It's not the extremism I mind, it's the absolutism.

Right now, I couldn't declare "I'm right" about any part of what's going on in this space right now, and I'm surprised when others do so.

I think the AI dino is fine.

I'm not aware of anyone judging my taste in art and thinking less of me. If they judge, they do so silently.

That's been a constant for my entire adult life.

The first substack I've actually considered subscribing to. Apparently I am a manchild who enjoys this sorta writing, and few others do. :D

I got 2 500s and quickly popped over to codex since I was just doing documentation and planning work and didn't neeeeeeed claude. He's already back for me. :)

To another's point, yeah, it's sad that Claude taking a brief hiatus just halts workflow. I imagine my whole team just started packing for a beach trip. Then again, I suppose if the CPA office computers go down, everyone doesn't dust off giant ledgers and quill pens and start working manually.

I keep waiting for LLM chats to "steer" to a specific vendor's solution (in exchange for that vendor's substantial fee of course) -- so when I ask "is my UPS repairable?" i might get tips to fix, replace the battery (with $VENDOR's chinesium nonsense perhaps), or straight lied to and told the UPS is now e-waste, but consider $VENDOR's sale on UPS's right now over at this link. Perhaps an affiliate link? who knows!

I pay for LLMs so I hope they don't leak that crassness into paying clientele -- but... how would I know if they did it subtly? I wouldn't! :/

This is my take too, although I'm not prepared for a max400 reality to replace the max200, but... I hate all of the whingeing. Piggies at the buffet line seem to be the loudest on this subject.

Same for me. I have been max200 for like 10 months, i think my usage is reasonable, and i never seem to get the quality throttling that gets complaints daily. I assume they are targeting certain piggies at the Claude buffet, who then squeal the loudest.

We are all quickly becoming allergic to AI writing.

To fool us into thinking writing is not AI generated, we will create "human-ifying" filters to the LLM. This will introduce common keystroke, grammar, and spelling issues that surely no automation would ever create on its own.

Soon the writing most vaunted and trusted will be the writing that appears written by a 4 year old with a crayon.

Sigh.

Glad to see it. We enjoyed the movie greatly but I am sure 50% of that was just relief that the movie adaptation didn’t F the story up :)

The audiobook is the peak experience still I think. Highly highly recommended

A G650 still loses to a motivated U-haul. :)

No argument though, just saying it's a hard problem, and the scaling issue makes it somewhat awkward to deploy security resources in proportion to the threat.

I don't have a solution. I'm not exactly thrilled with the current setup, but I try to stay quiet since I can't think of anything better.

In terms of menace potential, any private plane will lose to a van full of fertilizer and a baddie intent on causing destruction. It's a matter of scale.

Little planes, like this one [1] just don't do damage on the same scale as airliners.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack

I daily a M1 Max / 64GB / 2TB and have for some time.

My current company bought me an M4 Pro / 24GB / 512GB.

There is a significant amount of dust on it. I use it every once in awhile when I need to access my corporate Apple ID which is tied to the thing. I'll be really sad if they force me to use it on the daily. Luckily nobody seems to be checking usage.

I know it's not what you asked, but I think it's where you're headed -- an adequately specced Mac instead of two half-spec. :) I can't imagine splitting a workload between two physical machines again -- like when I needed a PC and the M1. It's a real PITA to juggle boxes.

One of my favorite books -- I had no idea there was a real-life inspiration for it (Balzampleu!) This will get me to re-read it, it's been too long. :)

Is this the "every sperm is sacred" argument?

More personal information than you provide them to purchase the ticket to use the free starlink?

I wish my other addictions were only $200/mo. Honestly. And for some, as satisfying as claude.

We're all in the same boat right now. Except for those who decry LLMs and loudly await the relevance of their artisanal coding skills to re-ascend. :)

I just don't like red badges on icons.

Especially when the implication in the article is the police tried to delete a video from evidence -- and still ended up getting to hide behind qualified immunity.

Ugh.

I don't know how you can claim to love technology but hate AI so much -- it's a technological achievement. Yeah it's disruptive and that makes it dangerous if not managed, and I'm not exactly optimistic we'll manage it, but why aren't you curious about how it works? How to make it integrate with society better? How to deal with the myriad issues surrounding IP, rights, likeness stuff... there is a lot of fascinating work being done around AI to figure this all out.

Were you only interested in technology so you could be one of the chosen elders holding a rare and valuable skill? Bummer if so, I think that ship has sailed. If not sunk altogether.

Otherwise? I guess learn plumbing? I think we're still a few years away from Claude telling me "You're absolutely right! Let me unclog that toilet for you" :D

There's a fast-follow "You're absolutely right!" from Claude pending here. :)

Oracle's icy touch. It was foretold. :D

I do think Claude does jiggery pokery with its model quality but I have had Clod appear any time of day.

What i find IS tied to time of day is my own fatigue, my own ability to detect garbage tier code and footguns, and my patience is short so if I am going to start cussing at Clod, it is almost always after 4 when I am trying to close out my day.

This bums me out so much. It means that we need the concept of "late-stage internet" to join capitalism describing things that were awesome and now they're much worse and getting worse-rer. :/

Here's mine. I use it in lieu of a cover letter if I'm trying to make a new connection. If this doesn't explain who I am at a glance, I'm doing it wrong. :)

https://msxpert.com/cv/

...which is to say nothing of the interchange fees they earned on that "free loan"

> A triangle-shaped piece to guide the extending kitchen sink sprayer hose so it stops getting caught on stuff under the cabinets

Holy hell that's genius. I know what I'm printing tomorrow! :D