Pete Hodgson

@thepete.net

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Outside expert helping engineering teams adopt AI

transcript from a Claude.ai session with Opus 4.6 Extended which includes: "push the [training run] from Tuesday to Thursday. That gives your lungs 3 more days."
an extremely cringe genAI image of a robot "programming". It's got a nice cup of coffee on it's desk for some reason.
A screenshot of a repo's AGENTS.md, which starts with Guidelines for AI coding agents working in this Rust codebase. RULE NUMBER 1: NO FILE DELETION YOU ARE NEVER ALLOWED TO DELETE A FILE WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION. Even a new file that you yourself created, such as a test code file. You have a horrible track record of deleting critically important files or otherwise throwing away tons of expensive work. As a result, you have permanently lost any and all rights to determine that a file or folder should be deleted. YOU MUST ALWAYS ASK AND RECEIVE CLEAR, WRITTEN PERMISSION BEFORE EVER DELETING A FILE OR FOLDER OF ANY KIND. Irreversible Git & Filesystem Actions — DO NOT EVER BREAK GLASS Absolutely forbidden commands: git reset --hard, git clean -fd, rm -rf, or any command that can delete or overwrite code/data must never be run unless the user explicitly provides the exact command and states, in the same message, that they understand and want the irreversible consequences. No guessing: If there is any uncertainty about what a command might delete or overwrite, stop immediately and ask the user for specific approval. "I think it's safe" is never acceptable. Safer alternatives first:......
hotline bling meme. Drake is very upset about an AGENTS.md file which include the instruction "when writing javascript, ALWAYS use `for…of`, NEVER `forEach(...)`" Drake is very content with an AGENTS.md file that contains the instruction "ALWAYS run ./bin/precommit" along with an eslint.config.js file that includes the rule "no-array-for-each": "error"
Idillic hiking trail along a coastline
A large 1920s craftsman house that's been lifted off its foundations and is being transported down a city street.
Case for a "Byyddiy Muscle Scraper"
"How most people draw branching diagrams": a standard-looking diagram of source control branches, with the branches running parallel to trunk "How we should actually draw them to show divergence over time": a diagram where the branches are moving further apart from the others over time, reminiscent of those trace images from a particle accelerator
The tail end of a very pretty sunset. A harbor breakwater in the foreground, some San Juan islands behind (Orcas?), and the Olympic mountains just visible in the distance
View from City Creek canyon trail peeking down over Salt Lake City