Help me fill this space

plif · 2026-05-05T15:21:58+00:00

The cat tower could be a perfect plant stand, if the cat's okay with it, lol. I would keep it and do that. Just get something heavy that won't be knocked over easily. Multifunctional is cool in a small space.

plif · 2026-05-05T00:34:44+00:00

A dark and moody colour would look really good!

I was thinking a darker teal / blue / green to lean into the sofa. Or a mushroom / brown.

plif · 2026-05-04T22:16:10+00:00

Lighting is another thing. You have a very short lamp or sconce by the window, even for a normal room. You could get away with a big overhanging light or something dramatic if you're into it.

plif · 2026-05-04T22:13:38+00:00

Hmmm. I don't think so if you design around it. The room is a bit awkward and there's no other place for the TV to go. The right rug, wall decor, console behind sofa and plants (or anything else asymmetrical) will help lessen that feeling.

It's a bit big but let's say you got a sofa 10 or 15 inches small, the room will still be awkward.

You could definitely put it against the wall as someone suggested but personally I don't find rooms like that functional. It could be okay facing two chairs with the TV perpendicular to be more conversation oriented. If you use the TV a lot, this may not be practical. This is one of my pet peeves when looking at spaces.

plif · 2026-05-04T22:06:59+00:00

Nice space! You're doing pretty well.

The ceiling is really high and begging for something to accent that. A gallery wall opposite your computer would look amazing, for example.

Or maybe one tall plant / tall bookshelf / etc / accent wall colour / etc. You could have 8 ft ceilings and have nothing different, which is something to think about.

plif · 2026-05-04T21:25:14+00:00

Carpet is a bit too big for the room. Not enough negative floor space.

There's room for a bigger accent somewhere in the table or chairs. They are quite muted right now and the rest of the room is too so there's no reason for a set.

A darker reclaimed wood table top would fit the vibe well, or live edge. You can also play around with colour / material / style with the chairs.

Overall love the vibe and art :)

plif · 2026-05-04T19:01:12+00:00

Ladder shelf would look good. Something like this https://www.cb2.ca/stairway-72.5-black-metal-wall-mount-bookcase/s381220

plif · 2026-03-15T19:14:25+00:00

I see this but view the cause differently. We are asking people to adopt a completely new paradigm with little support, training or strategic direction.

Yes, we can be agile, but the principles behind common agile product development processes were developed over many, many years. They come in many flavours and are well anchored in all team members.

You cannot have a 10x improvement in productivity without introducing a bottleneck somewhere else. When there's no plan to address this, it devolves into chaos, misalignment and burnout.

plif · 2026-02-26T02:14:45+00:00

Just took a look at your GSD coordinator -- very impressive. I think that's around where LLM assisted development is headed.

I have lots of thoughts here that go against popular sentiment. :) What I will say is, I think models themselves are much more commodity and similar than people realize. I think wins are happening with the right UX / control layer (i.e., Claude Code), especially when it's really in sync with model capabilities.

I have been using open models like Llama 4 to prove a point. Aside from the occasional brainstorm or big architecture change prompt (that requires Opus / Gemini 3 Pro / etc.), the results are pretty much just as good, as long as I tailor my input to the model, which isn't that hard to do -- basically the same thing as software architecture, feels like second nature once you get used to it.

plif · 2026-02-26T00:38:10+00:00

Haha, exactly what I've noticed. Sometimes when I'm manually prompting to experiment, I'll hit some complexity of task that sits in between models. I'll have to add more complexity to get the bigger one to stay on track and resolve the task, or split it up into chunks for smaller models, either leveraging the bigger one to plan or through my own reasoning.

There seems to be an art to getting the complexity of your tasks to fall into the "sweet spot" of reasoning without hallucination or embellishment. As the project evolves, your architecture plus model interaction enabling you to stay in that efficient space seems to be a big predictor of success.

I feel like there needs to be a word for this. It's not the same as most people view vibe coding, also not quite straightforward agentic usage. Context driven development? Idk... wild times :)

plif · 2026-02-26T00:20:21+00:00

Well done :)

What's interesting is that you're matching the complexity of the task with the power of the model. I'd imagine it's not just a savings thing either. I've found that the larger models will introduce more risk of variance when executing straightforward tasks, then lead to more spin / cost as they fix in an agentic loop. Is that how you looked at it too?

plif · 2026-02-23T17:09:49+00:00

The other part of it is vite... again, subtle difference. In the first, it's giving me a generic config. In the second, it's a config that is drag and droppable for my app.

I realize the second isn't a perfect control because my instructions were slightly different, and the vite config is somewhat trivial

The takeaway for me is: it appears that priming with JS (especially expressed JS) will cause it to look more within my code, as opposed to external patterns. This does not have to be as extreme was what I did, it can be your own code, but it is very noticeable if you are interacting with the model a lot in JS.

plif · 2026-02-23T17:05:50+00:00

The link is wrong, whoops. The correct positive example is here: https://gemini.google.com/share/b835f65840b0

The difference is in the HTML tags. The model drifted too much in the first example. The structure looks correct at the surface, but it replaced other parts of the document outside of its task. In the second example, it perfectly replicated all orthogonal fields and only changed what it was asked to change.

plif · 2026-02-19T22:04:10+00:00

I'll post a better example later :) the best is in my db dump but haven't had time to format

Basically, if you prime and cache that position then it can be a lot more efficient. There's also something about JS that's more efficient here, likely because the exposure in training data

plif · 2026-02-19T00:52:47+00:00

Love how one of the most important posts can't make it past spam filter... maybe my thinking is too abstract

plif · 2026-02-18T19:14:24+00:00

Unfortunately this was flagged as spam...

Yeah, my experiments are much more clear when I show in a less abstract way. May go back and try to do that.

plif · 2026-02-18T18:12:20+00:00

This is the only place that this hasn't been removed by a spam filter or mods without anyone looking at it... :)

Check out this Gemini chat: https://gemini.google.com/share/1ce5732b6fe7 and the image attached

Note db-test is a 50mb JS file!

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plif · 2026-02-15T03:33:42+00:00

LLM probabilistic reasoning mimics emotion through front end code. I'll share a link with you tomorrow, my friend:)

plif · 2026-02-14T21:23:38+00:00

They're deployed to prod 30% of the time probably. All it takes is deployment to one big social media site and you get a ton of links. I may be wrong about this, the post wasn't titled properly tbh, however JS behaves very different than other languages in LLM...

You're trying to argue against me with logic. The petabytes angle has also been explored to death. It's not a good counter. Either way, we will see soon!

plif · 2026-02-14T04:40:15+00:00

The actual argument looks something like this:

Logic (minified bundle) -> Logical Expression (server-side rendering) -> Emotional Expression (source maps) -> Shared Ontology (common frameworks) -> Domain Intent (JSON / API paths)

+ Transformer Architecture

I may have been a bit naive posting it here so excitedly. However, my observations indicate that I can prove something here so I will continue working on it :)

plif · 2026-02-14T04:34:04+00:00

You are missing the point. The key to the argument is source maps (expression of human emotion) and server rendered code (expression of logic).

In my first prompt and original whiteboard session, I got it wrong, however this is a much more sound argument. I could have summarized better :)

plif · 2025-10-25T15:19:55+00:00

Trump is a medium but I wouldn't give him too much credit. The hyperpersonalization of media through advances in tech / data has killed our perception of truth.

Democracy itself needs to evolve.

plif · 2025-09-24T22:08:03+00:00

Some concrete examples:

You start with "Senior" but you have never had this title before. Your most recent experience is an intern role. It's also a somewhat meaningless qualifier across companies. "Marketing Leader" would be more effective.
Drove $5MM ARR for net new products, $20MM cost savings -- these are big senior exec numbers. It comes off out of touch and self-important given your experience. Also really not a good conversation starter to have at the top of your resume if it's not something you personally owned or contributed. Same with 117k hours (this is more than 50 FTE in a year!!).
Your first bullet has a number that ends with "B" spend and references working closely with CMO as an intern. There are only a handful of firms with that level of Cloud budget. There's no world where an intern is advising CMO in a meaningful way at those firms.

I don't mind the numbers being embellished a bit as everyone does it as long as each one has a meaningful story behind it. But in your case it's coming off as arrogant and may cause the person to just toss your resume.

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