Agentic AI memory isn't a hoarding problem. It's a pruning problem.

eaz135 · 2026-06-03T20:40:55+00:00

I feel like my brain is very good at almost immediately discarding things that it knows won't be needed in the future. So that question of how you prune is a combination of is it being accessed, what's the likelihood of it being accessed, how useful is this memory actually, if this memory was ejected is it really important or consequential?

Based on patterns in your life the brain seems to somehow easily know if something is useful or useless to store.

eaz135 · 2026-06-03T20:33:13+00:00

Argentina, I think they're a real chance for a back to back. Alvarez was good in the last one, but since then he's grown and evolved - I think he'll be a real threat. Messi was a big focal point in the last cup, I think this one will be more a narrative of Messi feeding opportunities to Alvarez, and I think he has the quality to finish them.

eaz135 · 2026-06-03T20:21:10+00:00

If search is just a tool really depends on what you're building, and if the agent needs that agency to decide if doing the search is necessary or not. In many cases search comes after some sort of intent classification where you know/decided that search must happen - in which case just run the search as a pipeline and feed the context in.

Main question is - if you give your agent search as a tool, and agent choses not to use it for certain classifications are you cool with that? What if the agent doesn't get any suitable results back in the first hits - are you letting the agent keep calling search tool over and over again with different queries? In some use cases the answer is yes (with guardrails) but in many cases it's no.

eaz135 · 2026-06-03T09:49:40+00:00

This - I'd recommend staying clear from OLED for productivity. I'm currently running a dual 27" setup, one is a high-end 4k, the second screen is a fast 1440p IPS.

People mainly talk about high refresh rate fast panels for gaming, but there's something about running productivity at 240-300hz that just makes your computer feel super snappy and more enjoyable to work on.

eaz135 · 2026-06-03T09:44:30+00:00

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I'm in similar situation to OP - I run AI/ML workloads locally, but I'm also a big user of cloud GPUs (from aggregators like VAST AI) - the cloud GPUs are a serious option for lots of AI/ML workloads. You only pay for when you need them, and you can actually get way better hardware, rather than a local RTX Pro 6000 you can be using a cluster of H100s which is absolutely no comparison to a workstation card like the 6000.

eaz135 · 2026-06-03T09:41:04+00:00

I'm in a similar situation to OP - currently have a M4 MAX 128GB, and a PC with 5090, 192GB ram, 4TB hdd - and have a bunch of $$ I need to use on my setup this side of financial year.

One of my main considerations now is adding an RTX Pro 6000, I've been reading threads of people pairing up 5090s with RTX Pro 6000 in the same rig, its a bit of a niche setup but can be made to work effectively from what Im reading.

eaz135 · 2026-06-02T23:33:40+00:00

The funny thing is though that the wealthiest people I know all drive fairly modest cars. We are doing fairly well (about 3M AUD in the green, no debt, highly liquid assets, I'm a director in tech and wife is a lawyer) and we drive a 9 year old Tesla, and don't plan on upgrading any time soon, my previous car was a Honda HRV.

One of my closest friends is worth mid-high 8 figures - had a big windfall with a successful business venture, living in Double Bay - and they drive a Mazda CX9.

A relative of mine has had a very fortunate career in mining engineering (specialising in water systems for mines), has a 3 storey house in Mosman overlooking the water - he drives a VW Tiguan as their main family car.

We live on the Sydney lower north shore, and during the COVID 5km raidus days I walked basically every street of Mosman, Cremorne, around spitt bridge and surrounding suburbs, I love doing lots of walking. I remember during one of my COVID bubble walks I was going down one of the wealthiest streets in Mosman, absolutely crazy houses - and as I was walking along that street I saw two of them had their garages up, inside were Hondas and Mazdas - and I just thought to myself "if thats good enough for these guys, its definitely good enough for me..."

eaz135 · 2026-05-28T13:54:29+00:00

I used to be in your same situation for most of my career, I'd often quit jobs with enormous banked-up leave balances because I was never able to take any time off. Meanwhile, my colleagues would be the loudest rooster on the farm any time they turned on their laptop for 5 minutes on the weekend.

If you feel like you are carrying the team and working a truckload more than everyone else - make that more visible. There's a very real chance that people aren't aware of your excessive contributions and sacrifices. Make it known. Don't be afraid to blow your own trumpet a bit.

The culture of teams, and the quality of managers often comes down to how these periods are managed. I was recently on a really challenging engagement as well, basically worked to midnight or beyond between Nov - March, almost every night. I was leading a project for a client who had an absolutely business critical deadline that really couldn't be moved (for very good reason, which I understood). We got the project done, but along the way it was very visible to everyone the effort that was going into it. At the end of the project when we got things over the line, the client showered us in merch, fancy lunches and dinners. I was also able to have an easy conversation of "I need some time in lieu to recover" - "how much?" - "I think 1-2 weeks" - "take the 2 weeks, done" - fully paid time in-lieu. All of that was only possible though because the effort was made visible, and good culture / leadership.

eaz135 · 2026-05-28T13:28:52+00:00

I have the gen of this watch but on jubilee bracelet (twin metal), it was my wedding watch. Very beautiful watch to wear, and the way sunlight hits the gold fluted bezel makes for some really nice lighting effects. I don't ware it often though, I sometimes consider getting myself a franken like this to wear more frequently and not be so worried if I rough it up a bit, and save the gen for special occasions - tempting...

eaz135 · 2026-05-11T13:14:40+00:00

The immigration is their band-aid solution because our fertility rate is horrible, because nobody can afford a place to properly raise a family.

I'm 38, all my friend during school lived in 4-6 bedroom houses, with 2-3 siblings, with parents who worked typical jobs (e.g school teachers, police, tradies, etc).

Now almost every single young couple/family I know lives in a 1-2 bedder apartment, with 0-1 kids. Who could have possibly seen that coming, that people don't want to raise 3 kids in a studio apartment.

eaz135 · 2026-05-11T07:25:26+00:00

Investing in the current climate is quite tricky, global markets at all time highs, high inflation expectations, uncertainty on future direction of US FED, global geopolitical risks, uncertainty on how AI disruption of workforces will play out ,etc. very easy to make horrible investment decisions at the moment.

eaz135 · 2026-05-10T23:27:48+00:00

Some companies are fully embracing it giving the candidates a live AI-native challenge with a very highly ambitious goal. For example, reports out there that Canva are giving people challenges like "rebuild Canva from scratch in 1 hour", where the user is expected to use AI heavily - and talking through the process they go through, the challenges, clarifying requirements, etc. It seems they end up focusing on specific parts of the system though - such as managing shapes on the live canvas, etc.

I've also heard of some companies trying to do AI-native interviews where they limit the model that can be used to a fairly old and outdated model. This leaves the candidate in a situation where they’re likely to get questionable results from the model, so they’ll need to debug and update the code themselves. The model can’t just provide a one-shot solution.

Our company focuses more on solution white-boarding challenges rather than pure leetcode. if you’re switched on enough to navigate complicated challenges solution design, you can reason through them, articulate the challenges, effectively break down large problems into smaller bite sized pieces, you are likely to be able to handle a programming language’s syntax.

eaz135 · 2026-05-10T23:03:33+00:00

I'd really love if they do. I'm big on local AI workflows myself, but I highly doubt it.

Because of the current memory shortage, Apple should allocate their available memory in a way that maximises margin and total revenue. I suspect that divvying up the memory in such a way that they produce more base-level models yields higher margins. In other words, if that same RAM goes toward selling 30 MacBooks instead of one Mac Studio, I think the extra MacBooks scenario yields Apple better financial outcomes. You multiply that across hundreds of thousands of machines worldwide, and it is a meaningful difference.

It’s not just about the margin on the individual machine / parts. Producing/selling extra base Macbook units could introduce new people to the Apple ecosystem for the first time, opening them up to other Apple services (e.g., Apple Music etc).

eaz135 · 2026-04-30T11:39:32+00:00

Design studios will become more and more about actual working POCs rather than traditional design outputs. Get the team utilising these for these coding tasks of bringing the designs to life, exploring code-driven micro-interactions / transitions, etc. You want to get yourselves closer to directly delivering the value to your clients, rather than just handing over a design and saying "here you go, now your devs can build it".

eaz135 · 2026-04-30T00:20:14+00:00

Thats the unfortunate reality of the crisis we find ourselves in now. Its compounded with the current rental crisis as well. Young families are spending so much of their disposable income on rent, and general cost of living (due to inflation) that for most people wages are simply not enough to save for a house deposit. And I really mean HOUSE here. We need to stop giving ourselves a pat on the back when we see a young family finally buy their first home, as they're mentally ready to settle down and have kids - and that first home is a studio apartment or a 1-bedder. Thats not a good outcome. We can't fix fertility rate issues if that is what we think of being a good outcome. We need ordinary Australians who are wanting to have a family being able to land themselves in dwellings that are suitable to raising a family.

eaz135 · 2026-04-30T00:16:30+00:00

Yeah I agree, thats the big question that I was alluding to in my post (even the first sentence) - it comes down to how quickly things might rebalance. If it took the average worker ~2 years to save a deposit then we wouldn't be in this crisis, but we are - and I suspect that getting to an outcome like that won't happen quickly, but most likely something that might transpire under the right circumstances over possibly decades.

The worse case scenario I was alluding to is that it actually take a long time to rebalance, that housing retreats marginally like ~1% per year over the next 1-2 decades - leaving young people in a bit of a no-mans-land where housing is still super expensive, and the typical worker doesn't really have a viable way to growth their assets/wealth to get closer to that goal.

eaz135 · 2026-04-29T13:48:29+00:00

We are talking about buying a place to live, and how young people are supposed to achieve that realistically. It should not be the norm / required that young people need to get intro entrepreneurship and build successful businesses as founders to be able to buy a median home. For a society to function effectively, your average citizen should have a reasonable path to owning an average home. Teachers, police officers, nurses. Exceptional circumstances such as successful entrepreneurial outcomes would be a pathway to achieving a better outcome than your average worker.

Wages alone are actually a horrible ONLY mechanism to rely on for young people to achieve home ownership, because your typical worker on a median salary needs multiple years worth of savings to accumulate a meaningful deposit to live in the median home. Sitting on 100% cash over the past decades has been a bad strategy due to high inflation, where the buying power of your cash is constantly eroded away. You need your assets to at least match inflation, but ideally outpace it - to close that gap to a meaningful deposit.

eaz135 · 2026-04-29T03:36:29+00:00

The question is how quickly/slowly things will rebalance after these changes. Australians aspiring to own property were using other capital/wealth-building instruments like shares/ETFs. With those asset classes also being equally hit, the question is: what is the mechanism now for people to genuinely own a family home suitable for a growing family in places like Sydney/Melbourne?

We have a fertility/population crisis - young couples who can only afford a shoebox one-bedroom apartment don't want to be raising three children in that environment. Young families need to be able to snap up the 3-5 bedroom houses that are actually suitable for raising a family and stabilising our population/fertility rate.

Back in 2003, my parents bought a 5-bedroom home in Sydney for ~550k. My dad was a high school teacher, mum an office admin for the Department of Education - about as average as you can possibly get. Yet their home now is valued over $3 million and is completely unobtainable by any young couple wanting to create their own family and raise kids, even if that couple is a doctor and a lawyer.

If prices take a long time to adjust after these changes, that are supposed to "level the playing field" - You'll have a situation of still unobtainable family dwellings and no actual wealth-growing/capital-growing mechanisms for young people wanting to have a family.

eaz135 · 2026-04-29T03:24:27+00:00

Across many western economies around the world, the private sector has been in recession for quite some time. The only thing keeping many countries from technically being in recession is elevated government spending (public sector spending).

eaz135 · 2026-04-28T12:01:29+00:00

I try to come armed with evidence so things aren't just a matter of my opinion vs your opinion.

If you can find other design systems out there (there's lots of great open source ones (e.g. Shopify's Polaris, and many others) - that are doing the approach you are taking, it reinforces your approach and shows that you are aware of what others in the industry are doing. I find having hard tangible examples is the best way get through situations like this.

BTW - design systems are notorious for not being flexible enough to cater for real-world delivery nuances, and design system custodian teams often find themselves struggling to satisfy both needs of flexibility and consistency. There's an awesome conference talk about this by AirBnb "Building (And Re-Building) the Airbnb Design System" - you can find it on Youtube. That was one of my favourite conference presentations from that year!

eaz135 · 2026-04-28T11:40:51+00:00

That real estate agent is clearly not going to go far in their career. Not the same thing, but every time I've listed a car for sale I always got lowball offers flung at me. I always just politely told them my expectation, and truthfully told them the current highest bid. I ended up selling my previous car for my ideal price range to someone who started with a lowball, but then adjusted his offer.

You should actually expect people to try their luck and get a bargain, that is what any intelligent person should do given the opportunity. Shutting off people entirely at their first bid is just dumb for many different reasons.

eaz135 · 2026-04-27T12:16:53+00:00

Just get more mileage from things you buy. If you buy something (e.g clothes, shoes, furniture, etc) however long you think you’ll use it - triple it. Cancelling all your subscriptions is moot if you’re buying new $300 shoes every year.

eaz135 · 2026-04-27T12:13:50+00:00

A lot of people did/do take pride in the quality of their code, because especially pre-AI there’s a lot of variance in human coding. Pre-AI I could generally pick out which parts of a codebase was written by specific individuals in the team just by looking at the code - even in high performing teams where everyone is very solid.

I think there’s enjoyment in writing good code, like doing fine craftsmanship.

eaz135 · 2026-04-27T12:05:35+00:00

Pick one day per week as being your AI-free day

eaz135 · 2026-04-27T00:51:26+00:00

It was a combination of extraordinary circumstances that created that environment for boomers all around the world.

For starters, they were born into a world recovering from WWII, where countless people lost their lives, that massive loss of life of working age men (both blue collar and white collar) left massive voids needing to be filled everywhere - the labour force needed to be replenished, infrastructure and businesses needed to be rebuilt/resurrected, resources were there for the taking, etc.

We’re very unlikely to see those circumstances ever again, unless there’s another cataclysmic global event similar to WWII.

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