TL;DR: when the model thinks it's done thinking, tell it to think some more. Yes, really.

Seven years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie founder.

I sold my company

My most significant professional development of the last year is that I sold TinyPilot, the company I founded in 2020.

My wife and I wanted to start a family, and I didn’t think I could be the sole manager of a seven-person company and a good father to a newborn. I found a buyer whose vision for the company aligned with mine, and we completed the sale in April 2024.

I tried out the Cline AI assistant yesterday, and then I went into a trance for five hours where I couldn’t do anything but stare transfixed at Cline fixing bugs for me.

As a professional developer, it was both enchanting and terrifying. It’s enchanting that AI has reached this level of proficiency. It’s terrifying for the same reason, as I’m not sure what role I’ll serve in a world where AI can write code better and faster than I can.

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As the times we live in demand it, I released Derpify.js. It is an npm package (3 line method) that turns strings into strings that are randomly mixed upper and lower case. console.log(derpify(‘All he wanted to say was I love you all.’)) gives you: ALL hE WANTed to SAY WAS I lOVe YoU AlL. Get […]