The models are smarter than you, you just have more context
About Me
I currently work in BizOps at Brain Co. Previously I was at Citadel Securities (VP, Office of the COO), Bain & Company (mostly in the PE team) and Workforce.com (BizOps).
I currently live in San Francisco. Previously I was in New York, and before that, Sydney.
Outside of work I enjoy reading, writing and building things.
Email: [email protected]
Blog Posts
I needed an agent to do workforce scheduling. One-shot prompting failed, so I built a hierarchical system instead. This post walks through the architecture and the tradeoffs.
The economics of building software are changing
An analysis of LLMs' ability to construct constraint-optimized employee schedules
A simple framework for iterating quickly to identify what works when building with LLMs
A handful of recent projects with LLMs
Why many executives spend time on 'minor' details, and why it is rational to do so
Improving LLM capabilities through increased runtime compute and better specialization.
Most market-driven activity has different properties than chess that will result in less human-centricity
Fixed-cost economics mean it is unlikely that dramatically longer context windows will replace fine-tuning
Speed and efficiency are often at odds in project management; it is worth considering which you are optimizing for
Explaining the gap between perception and reality of what consulting firms are selling
Review of Brian Arthur's fascinating theory of the true nature of technology and the resulting implications