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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 07/04/2026

Reminder for whoever needs to hear it, today's cutting edge AI models are still very jagged in their "PhD-level intelligence". Put more bluntly, Opus 4.6 Extended sometimes can't count to 2. 🫠

transcript from a Claude.ai session with Opus 4.6 Extended which includes:

"push the [training run] from Tuesday to Thursday. That gives your lungs 3 more days."

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 30/01/2026

You’re staring at a breathless social media post (probably with a really cringe AI-generated image of a robot “writing software”) or Slack share talking about the latest AI-coding flavor of the week. You’re wondering “is this actually worth me checking out?” Here’s the heuristic I use... 🧵...

an extremely cringe genAI image of a robot "programming". It's got a nice cup of coffee on it's desk for some reason.

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 17/12/2025

I continue to believe that context management is the #1 skill to develop if you want to get the most out of coding agents. But why? Modern models have a context limit of 200,000 tokens! That seems like a lot! There's a couple of reasons why... 🧵

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 25/09/2025

Good example of why it's important to monitor your LLM-powered features in prod. Apparently some bug in Amazon's AI assistant where the product description isn't in it's prompt. Pre-production evals are super important, but wouldn't catch this. Monitoring some key metrics in prod would.

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 30/07/2025

This continues to shock and confuse me: the proportion of devs who are still not getting any active encouragement from their employers to start experimenting w. AI-assisted coding. Also goes to show how silly the "all devs will be replaced by AI in 2 years" claims are. /via @angiejones.tech

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 24/07/2025

Very cool! FYI, I got an error in the sandbox when I clicked Generate Response. Do I need to add an API key somewhere, or something?

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 10/07/2025

“Listen, I’m wondering if our engineers are doing enough with AI…” your CEO says, as the two of you sit down for your 1:1. Wouldn't it be great to have a true strategy in place for adopting AI-assisted coding? I've got you covered! blog.thepete.net/blog/2025/06...

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 17/06/2025

Days like today I can't believe I get to live here

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 13/06/2025

The rule holds: if it wasn't DNS, then it was probably a config change. #hugops status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 16/05/2025

It also (unintentionally) provides a great example of the risks of AI-generated code. Hand-rolled XML escaping code AND hand-rolled date parsing in a single commit! Wooooohoooo!!! 🤦

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 21/04/2025

The platonic ideal of a Pacific Northwest spring weekend. Sucia Island!

Small rowing boat pulled up to a beach with a super pretty bay in the background

More amazing trails through pine trees with an island bay off to the side

Sail boats at anchor at dusk in a calm bay (Echo Bay on Sucia Island)

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 16/04/2025

When I write a big blog post I sometimes spend way too long trying to come up with a clever metaphorical cover image. For the last few days I've been stuck doing the opposite - trying to figure out what blog post I can write that could use this as a clever metaphorical cover image

A large 1920s craftsman house that's been lifted off its foundations and is being transported down a city street.

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 04/04/2025

I think this thing is named after the sound it makes you make

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 24/03/2025

what do I mean by transforming n*m to n+m? Rather than each tech stack's SDK having to build integrations for each feature flagging provider (n*m), each tech stack SDK just needs to integrate into OpenFeature (n), and each feature flagging provider does the same (m).

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 06/12/2024

As a service to our industry, allow my to re-share this classic banger from @jahnnie.bsky.social x.com/jahnnie/stat...

"How most people draw branching diagrams": a standard-looking diagram of source control branches, with the branches running parallel to trunk

"How we should actually draw them to show divergence over time": a diagram where the branches are moving further apart from the others over time, reminiscent of those trace images from a particle accelerator

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 04/12/2024

Today I selected the very BEST minutes in the day to go for a run 🥰

The tail end of a very pretty sunset. A harbor breakwater in the foreground, some San Juan islands behind (Orcas?), and the Olympic mountains just visible in the distance

Sail boats happily tucked up in Bellingham marina at sunset.

Marina boat launch. Yes, still at sunset.

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Pete Hodgson @thepete.net · 15/11/2024

I don't know of a better way to start the day. So neat that this is only 2 or 3 miles run from the center of SLC!

View from City Creek canyon trail peeking down over Salt Lake City

Nice clear roads for running on a crisp morning

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