Fragments for llm

Simon Willison added “fragments” to his llm program. See the announcement and documentation. This radically extends the facility for generating request context. Fragments extend and modularize the notion of templates. At the same time they admit the plugin model, so that a fragme…

Dual OS Single Boot

It’s increasingly common to run into programs that are not portable. One mild version is people who assume Bash is available without naming it explicitly as a dependency. A more irksome version of this is the #!/bin/bash script. Creeping Linuxisms are everywhere now. A third vers…

Solo Unicorn

The idea of a solo unicorn has made the rounds lately in the AI fantasy realm. And don’t take “fantasy realm” as a pejorative here. Fantasy remains an essential part of entrepreneurship, although we typically call it “vision”. What would it take for a solo entrepreneur to create …

Upside Potential

No new hire walks in the door knowing what they need to know in order to do well on the job. From outside the company, they cannot possibly understand the details of the work and how it gets done on the inside. The same goes for personnel dynamics that one understands only throug…

The Data Moat

In two prior posts, here and here I listed moats that I think are defensible in an AI-powered world. One more is truly proprietary data. Why the “truly” qualifier? Because clever derivations from sources available to others are unlikely to be defensible. This would amount to a tr…