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Ben Congdon

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Fifty Bits of Career Advice

The Agency Gap

When Red Buttons Aren't Enough

Why Developer Tools?

The Models Want to Reason

How I Use AI: Early 2025

AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back

Chain of Continuous Thoughts

Lake Union's Lonely Trolley: SLU Streetcar Ridership

TaskWarrior

How I Use AI: Mid-2024

Avoid Load-bearing Shell Scripts

Soft Boredom

Mental Models: Slack

The Soul of an Old Machine

Scala Pitfall: Parameterless Function Calls and Misplaced vals

On Prompt Engineering

2022 in Review

My Favorite Books of 2022

On Personal Predictions

In Praise of Stacked PRs

So long, and thanks for all the Gophers!

Mental Model: Difficult Problems vs. Hard Work

You Need to be Wrong (Sometimes)

Mental Model: Stages of Change

NYC 2022 Observations

Tools for Making Difficult Decisions

Manifold Markets

One Weird Trick

Kindle Snippets Viewer

List of Lists of 2022 Predictions

2021 in Review

My Favorite Books of 2021

Branchless Git

Using Embedding to Disambiguate Types in Go

Recently - October 2021

Features of Excellent Code Review Tools

Recently - September 2021

Preventing Link Rot in my Obsidian Vault

Recently - August 2021

B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know

DIY Air Quality Sensor

Recently - July

2,000 Days Later

Schedule Your Emails

Recently - May

Building a Raft

Backing up my Google Takeout data

Recently - April

Book Review: Gödel, Escher, Bach