BoggleFiend

No offense, but it sounds like you just skipped reading the blog and jumped right to the comment section.

The blog post is literally about various measures that seem "productive" but don't seem to be creating any value.

I listened to his podcast on Pragmatic Engineer. I don't think he specifically addressed what it solved, but he talked about shifting the Overton window in regards to what's possible with AI agents. I'm not arguing that he actually accomplishes this -- just noting that his goal seems to be less "create something useful" and more so "create something that gets people's attention and maybe gets them to thinking about AI in a different way".

Cynically, he published a book on vibe coding recently, so he may just be grabbing attention as some effort to boost book sales.

He was recently interviewed on Pragmatic Engineer, a podcast whose guests almost always have very impressive technical careers (the episode before him was Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, the VP of Data and Analytics at AWS and the episode after him is Brady Gooch, the Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM)

I agree that summarizing Peter as a "vibe coder" is unfair and disingenuous. The podcast paints his career as being interesting because we went from an impressive software developer, to an entrepreneur, to taking a significant break, to kind of obsessively creating Clawdbot.

Worth a listen https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-creator-of-cl...

Interesting that very few (any?) people in the pictures are wearing helmets. In the US, I think it's a lot more common for cyclers to wear helmets. Maybe that comes with a fear of getting clobbered by a car.

One thing not mentioned in the article is the use of pesticide. Were the peels organic, or do the pesticides naturally degrade in a harmless way?

Congrats on adding a project supposedly using an LLM to you resume, but it doesn't seem to do anything useful. "fox" and "beta" both led to a small shake, which as a user I would think indicates they are not words in the English language. "Flowery" returned a definition of: "full of, re­sem­bling, or smelling of flow­ers—e.g., a flow­ery meadow, flow­ery wall­pa­per"

This app appears to be a limited but somewhat artsy front-end for an (incomplete) dictionary

https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts Wild how much money we (US taxpayers) give them.