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Nate Meyvis

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Dad. Programmer. Reader.

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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I'm not sure that AI is making "cognitive debt" worse, and I'm optimistic that AI can in fact help us mitigate it. www.natemeyvis.com/on-cognitive...
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On cognitive debt
On cognitive debt People are talking about cognitive debt, the idea that AI-generated codebases are at risk of falling into a state where nobody knows how...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Don't underrate the value of reading code that's "flying by." www.natemeyvis.com/on-watching-...
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On watching code fly by
These days I'm watching a lot of code fly by. This can take the form of scrolling through diffs of pull request or seeing code flash by in Claude Code. When ...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
What might an AI-first recipe site look like? Blog post: www.natemeyvis.com/what-might-a... Site: recipes.natemeyvis.com
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What might an AI-first recipe site look like?
The near future will have AI-native versions of just about everything. I want to know more about what that will look like, and I want a clean modern recipe s...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
12-tabling online poker as an analogy for The New Programming: www.natemeyvis.com/new-technolo...
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New technology in programming and poker
Work feels different now. Steve Yegge captured something important in an interview with Gergely Orosz: There’s a vampiric effect with AI, where it gets you ...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Programming with AI reminds me a bit of 12-tabling online poker in the early days. www.natemeyvis.com/new-technolo...
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New technology in programming and poker
Work feels different now. Steve Yegge captured something important in an interview with Gergely Orosz: There’s a vampiric effect with AI, where it gets you ...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Some notes about context windows: www.natemeyvis.com/thinking-abo...
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Thinking about context
The context window is one of the new fundamental ideas in programming. Here is a nice Claude-centric overview of it. Programming now requires a strong w...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Some first thoughts on living in a digital world more of my own making: www.natemeyvis.com/on-making-on...
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On making one's own environment
First, an update on my vibecoding agentic engineering journey: I'm making approximately one new webapp per day, slightly more over the last week.[^1] Not a...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Some notes on "coverage tooling" for AI: www.natemeyvis.com/coverage-too...
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Coverage tooling for AI
Some, but not all, traditional software engineering tools will have new, AI-optimized analogues. Consider coverage tooling: not test coverage, where you meas...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Humane, adaptive AI bootstrapping: www.natemeyvis.com/humane-adapt...
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Humane, adaptive AI bootstrapping
In the AI near-future, we'll be able to make solid tools of modest scope quickly. The promise and potential of AI has many other aspects, but "please make an...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Notes on the Helix text editor after using it for two months: www.natemeyvis.com/helix-two-mo...
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Helix, two months later
I in October. It's worked out well, I'm still using it, and it's likely to be my default text editor indefinitely. I hadn't noticed that - / -like functi...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
In some circles this is one of my most contrarian views: www.natemeyvis.com/on-having-a-...
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On having a data object
Here's a common pattern: People this pattern. Everyone likes the (apparent) simplicity of , and many engineers also think that those objects bring abs...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Jumping straight into the deep end on a chilly morning for #LearnedLeague 106.
LearnedLeague Web page, showing FrielP as the opponent for match day 1.
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Some thoughts about spaced repetition and scheduling. (Draft: all comments welcome.) www.natemeyvis.com/notes-on-spa...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
If anyone out there is knowledgeable about spaced repetition algorithms and willing to read a draft of a blog post, please let me know! I'd be grateful. Solid knowledge of FSRS and its various constants is particularly useful, but not necessary. (DMs are open, etc.)
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Watching some poker on stream for the first time in probably 6 years. (Just what's available free on YouTube.) I don't ever play poker these days, but that didn't keep me from having a bunch of opinions about the very first hand I saw. (J9 / 22 / K8) @thinkingpoker.bsky.social
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Well, bright side, I get to play a significant match on MD25, and if I'm going to be playing to avoid relegation, this is about as safe as it comes (I'm safe with a win or tie, or LegnerB loss or tie, or OvallesJ loss, or HaanD loss [or maybe tie]). #LearnedLeague
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
@cdbarker.bsky.social I'm sure this is a very old observation in APUSH circles, but what are you supposed to do about the start of the Philippine-American War, the Newsboys strike, and so on?
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A good edge case to be in the habit of considering is "what if the back end did nothing but dump all the relevant data to the front end, and the front end did everything else?" Taken literally, it's usually not the best idea, but it's well worth thinking through.
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
If your New Year's resolutions will involve learning something, I might be able to help (I've built a spaced repetition system that is ready for alpha users): www.natemeyvis.com/zippyflash-i...
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
(Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT is a lot better as a math tutor than a Greek or philosophy tutor.)
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Christmas break, day 4: got a little spare time and, in half an hour using ChatGPT as a tutor, made more progress in Galois theory than I previously have in tens of hours of study.
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I had overlooked the obvious: this might just be Cursor itself.
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
New post: how to ramp up (as a software engineer on a new team). www.natemeyvis.com/how-to-ramp-up
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I love Cursor and try to keep up with other genAI-powered coding tools, but haven't explored the natural-language analogues. I just tried ChatGPT's Canvas, and it was promising but buggy and sometimes frustrating. What's the best "Cursor for natural language" tool?
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Hello! I’ve been working on a spaced repetition flashcard webapp for a while. I use it every day and it’s about ready for prime time. I’d love alpha / beta users, so if there’s any flashcardable material you want to learn and retain indefinitely, let me know. I’ll happily help you make the cards.
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Benjamin Solak @benjaminsolak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is kinda random but do you remember that one time the Bears had 32 seconds left on a running clock and one timeout and only got one more play off
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
@thinkingpoker.bsky.social Please excuse me if you've answered this a dozen times (I haven't been on social media), but have you read and/or formed an opinion about _Good Arguments_? www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...
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Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I might have 15 or so hours to spend studying computers soon. I’d like to go from “the React guy on the team” to “absolute front-end monster.” Any suggestions?
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Andrew Brokos @thinkingpoker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
What better bellwether of the BlueSky community could there be than that we've got Nate Meyvis out here talking about poker?!
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Running good at trivia is not as lucrative as running good at poker, but is just as pleasant. #LearnedLeague
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
Many things made me feel old this year, but seeing Ludacris advertise homeowner’s insurance is at the top of the list.
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Nate Meyvis @natemeyvis.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
A year ago I set a goal of 100 correct answers in a LL season. I'm at 96 going into Monday. Stepping to the line for some pressure free throws.
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