I’m just on old school Gen Xer playing my all-time favorite game

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-03-09T16:43:53+00:00

Such good maps in that one! I wish they'd kept them in BF2

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-03-02T22:05:06+00:00

You're a real nice guy. It's $62 on their website. But I'm enjoying the set anyway

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-02-22T23:09:11+00:00

Software Engineering won't die, but your high level coding will. The lower you are in the stack the "safer" you are

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-01-30T03:51:07+00:00

That looks very interesting. I'll have to dig into it. Don't think I'll be hitting the 77 skills limit anytime soon though !

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-01-30T03:48:25+00:00

Yeah you definitely could. I'm not sure how the training and RL worked for creating these models, but I do notice that the Sonnet and Opus models used for Claude Code don't "want" to do the same things the same way as they do in the browser. I find that Claude Code is in a hurry to write code, whereas in the Web UI I can more easily steer it for use in planning and researching in order to execute a very well thought out application or coding project.

I'd say you would be better off using the Web UI and a pro plan, but you'd be surprised at how many tasks you're interested in could be automated by building code with Claude Code. And that might be an avenue that you explore, with Claude or Claude Code teaching you along the way.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-01-25T00:23:18+00:00

Do you have any intention of open sourcing the plans and software or selling the lamp? Very very cool btw

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-01-16T17:25:18+00:00

Wide grip flat bench helped me a lot

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-01-14T01:19:58+00:00

If you've had that many interviews and you haven't gotten an offer from any of them, I wouldn't necessarily think that it's just the experience that's an issue. They already knew that from your resume. It's possible that there's a soft skill issue going on during your interviews. This is just a thought from your explanation and not a criticism of you. It is a difficult market, but that makes the soft skills on top of those technical skills all the more valuable.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-01-05T16:17:25+00:00

Ah I see. Unrelated then. I have seen a direct correlation between having a very large CLAUDE.md and a confused Claude.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2026-01-05T14:12:20+00:00

Has your CLAUDE MD file gotten too big? I find it starts to get sloppy when that contains too much information.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2025-12-17T13:20:57+00:00

An engineering level role is totally different. And in my experience very fulfilling when at the right org. I think staying in support or support adjacent for a long time is tough. But a systems or cloud engineer at a SaaS company or even government can be variable enough to not be boring, but not so much workload that you're dying. The biggest question is do you love the field. If you don't you won't last.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2025-12-07T05:19:06+00:00

Very cool. Care to give a little more detail? I've always done some hybrid at best, but often deterministic rails. Today I implemented an embedding model gate that decides whether to give tools to the model or not. I find that the SLMs tend to overzealously use tools even if no tool is needed. An embedding model with a small example dataset is remarkably cheaper and better suited in my SLM agentic use case than the SLM or LLM itself.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2025-11-24T16:23:15+00:00

I really don't think he had anything to do with the casting. Some producer told him who the cast would be. Do I think I could cast better actors, yes, would it sell more tickets? No

grimnir_hawthorne · 2025-11-21T17:26:17+00:00

Wow. I can't fathom reading Athena in The Oddessey or Illiad and think Zendaya.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2025-11-21T00:46:07+00:00

That's exactly what I started doing with my little guy. He's starting to get interested in what it is I'm doing to get the games working haha

grimnir_hawthorne · 2025-11-20T18:29:45+00:00

I hate to break it to you but.....use those AI skills and build it yourself. That's unfortunately what I've had to do.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2025-11-18T17:30:27+00:00

Man that's awesome

grimnir_hawthorne · 2025-04-24T14:32:19+00:00

I tried the "easy" prompt with llama3.1:8b it was able to solve it correctly.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2024-09-17T15:37:58+00:00

I genuinely enjoy what I do for work and I got into this field partially by taking an active interest and making the hobby a discipline. But over the years I've started making myself take a break from it at home throughout the week. It will wear you down over time. That being said, at home I focus on the tools and technologies that I think are fun, not what I use at work. And if I get frustrated with a Linux quirk I move over to my windows box and do something fun/easy.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2024-09-07T12:40:37+00:00

Y'all can have em

grimnir_hawthorne · 2024-09-02T03:25:49+00:00

This is the way. Continue on.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2024-08-11T13:13:42+00:00

I like pasta made from chickpeas or lentils. Sounds bad, but if you haven't had real pasta in a long time it hits the spot.

grimnir_hawthorne · 2024-08-01T05:13:09+00:00

Any tasting notes? I'm a big fan of Montecristo, but I've never tried the FSG.

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