sean goedecke

Self-belief, pragmatism, speed, and technical ability

Cynicism and optimism in software companies

Why you can't skip to the top (but you can skip to the bottom)

What I've learned from ten years working on projects like this

Why companies don't reward glue work and why you shouldn't do it all the time

What does it take to get promoted from senior to staff at a tech company?

Engineering talent is about task-capability, not speed or volume

Thoughts on building and maintaining trust with very senior managers

Four archetypes in software engineering

Overconfidence about the big questions in software engineering

What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project

Summarizing a whole lot of internet argument about the water usage impact of language models

Why people are excited about Monte Carlo tree search and language models

How to use modern machine learning tools to recognise animal calls

A devlog of my experience porting and hacking llama2.c

A deep-dive into the specifics of LLMs, via llama2.c

How ReAct-pattern agents work and how to build them yourself

Practical advice on writing a successful coding challenge

Practical advice on succeeding at a design interview

As simple an explanation of blockchain as possible

Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas

A brief explanation of how blockchains work for developers

A brief statement of values for recruiters or hiring managers

The internet is full of war stories, but almost no incidents are like that

One idea for testing incident troubleshooting

How to explain complex technical concepts by starting with why

Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by worry than it is by a lack of technical skill