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As my wife headed out the door, my five year old granddaughter called, “Have fun storming the castle!” So we’re doing something right.

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It’s crucial in product pricing that both parties can understand and control the levers that drive price. Most AI products fail this test. The unit I’m charged for is opaque. I’m being charged for tokens or flibits… … and I have no way of predicting how many of those units I’m about to use.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The internet suggests building wood and brush piles to attract rat snakes as a method of rodent control. It also suggests removing all wood and brush piles to avoid attracting rodents.

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Buying pepper spray (foxes and coyotes on my dog walk route), and Amazon suggests I might want a subscription delivered monthly.

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Overhearing a guy explain to his kids that the only reason a business doesn’t accept credit cards is so they can cheat on their taxes. Like fees, payment delays, cash flow crunches, or chargebacks aren’t things that exist. But apparently only criminals use cash.

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I'm looking for lots of examples of OKRs, both good and bad. Can you send me some of yours? Redact parts if you need to, and know that I won't share the raw data anywhere. DMs are open or email my first name AT kalsey.com

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Little Peanut has an idea: butterfly trading cards. Like baseball cards or Pokémon cards, but each one has a different butterfly and facts about it. I’m surprised it doesn’t have exist and now I’m thinking of making them.

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I used to advocate for extending OKRs to individuals, but I changed my mind. Here’s why: kalsey.com/2025/05/sho...

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What am I doing wrong? My project's Cursor rules are completely ignored all the time. Like the feature is not even implemented. For example, I have a new project with a rule set to Always that says "explain all planned changes before changing files." It just writes the code.

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I’ve helped lots of teams implement OKRs or fix a broken OKR process. Here are the 10 most common problems I see, and what to do instead

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How to tell if a company uses AI to write their job descriptions:

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People keep mentioning “taste” as an essential skill in the AI era, but it’s really about navigating trade offs. Taste is just one form of that. kalsey.com/2025/05/ai_i...

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Writing a new blog post, was feeling pretty good about the content. Then I asked AI, "What's missing? If I were a <target audience> that just read this, what questions would I have?" Exposed a lot of parts that lack detail and holes in my ideas.

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Granddaughter: what does a real live mouse look like? Me: let’s look up a picture DuckDuckGo:

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One problem with branding your features… I’m looking at a product pricing page that describes how many Whatsits and Flubberts the different plans come with and I have no idea what the difference between the plans are Beto don’t know their jargon.

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How long before we see a supply chain attack that comes from malicious code generated by an LLM? There's all these App Gen startups encouraging people to write code they don't understand. So many new layers in the stack that need trust.

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This weekend I built an AI editor to clean up my writing. It uses the style, tone, and sentence structure from my blog posts to keep the edits sounding like me. Embeddings and vector search to find similar content, then LLM instructions to fix things I write.

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"I wonder if there's a code snippet on the internet that does this odd thing I want to do." ... searches internet ... ... finds exactly what I want ... on my own web site from 21 years ago ...

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Some people in business look at AI and say, “look at how much we can save.” Others say, “look how much more we can do.” Bet on companies filled with the second group.

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Looking into a school for the Little Peanut and it's not a great sign when they don't now when to use apostrophes.

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I have ChatGPT a list of 20 bullet points as a possible response to a question. Asked for the 8 best fit points. It gave me a good answer. Then asked for the 8 worst fit points. Seven of them were the same as it gave me for the best fit points. It’s a Tale of Two Answers.

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Spent two hours trying to resolve dependencies on a new laptop for an old Ruby utility. Wished for a uv-style virtual environment for Ruby. Then decided to just ask ai to convert the utility to a python script for UV. Took 20 seconds and worked flawlessly on the first try.

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A key skill when coding with AI is code review and feedback. Reviewing the output to guide the LLM to get it right. I find the best prompt pattern is “will this work? Won’t that actually do…?” If I declare it won’t work, the LLM will change it, even when it was right.

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I have one very important remote work rule for my teams: if your pet or kid makes a noise we can all hear on a call, you are required to put them in front of the camera so we can all meet them.

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I planted some peas in October as a soil improvement crop. They grew 4 feet tall and stuck around all winter. A few weeks ago, they started producing fruit. Didn’t expect that, but that’s how I’ll plant from now on. Looking like my best pea yield ever. Fresh peas are the best.

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One fascinating thing about reasoning models is what they reveal in chain-of-thought. Asked o3-mini about current news and the thought process revealed why it hallucinates. It doesn’t have knowledge after 2023, so it invented plausible news to satisfy my question.

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When you tell someone you’re going to jury duty, they express condolences. But if you tell them you’re going to vote, they express gratitude. Two important pieces of our government, totally opposite attitudes.

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If I can use the messages app to send a voice recording, and my voicemail transcribes everything to text… Why are voicemail and messages two separate concepts on my phone?

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Maybe the internet knows… I’m looking for a device that’s basically a NAS that can plug into a SD card slot. So I can drop files on an SD card remotely while it’s inserted into a device.

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I’ve been trying to get Firestone Walker Invitational tickets for years, but they sell out in seconds. Today my wife managed to win the browser refresh race and get me one.

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