Please have a learning budget

Hello hello! What’s up?

This is a letter, a personal letter, from me to you. I hope to send it to you every week. If you find it boring, or want to holler at me, just reply to this.

I am going to share three interesting things I came across the past week, every week.

Let’s get into it.

1. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

Sweet post by someone who wanted to send messages to their mother in a more permanent way than WhatsApp, so they made an E-ink display for her, which can receive messages from their children.

2. How to make a sandwich from SCRATCH

This video shows how you would make a sandwich FROM SCRATCH.

Right from growing wheat, to raising chicken, and then assembling all the required parts.

Goes to show just how much cheaper it is to spend money!

3. AI Makes Tech Debt More Expensive

LLMs make the easy stuff easier, but royally screws up the hard stuff.

The fundamental problem with LLMs is that they follow patterns, rather than doing any actual reasoning.

This is essentially the observation made by the article; AI coding tools do a great job of following examples, but their usefulness is limited to the degree to which the problem to be solved maps to a followable example.

I have been spending a lot of time r/developersIndia recently and got frustrated with people’s lack investing money into their own self, so wrote a very small post about it — Have a learning budget.

P.S. Hit me up if you’re looking for a team to build full stack web or mobile apps.